Selected topics in Art of the Early and High Middle Ages in Western Europe I: Byzantine Art

The course is intended to widen and deepen the previously obtained knowledge of artistic developments in the Byzantine empire, which cannot be fully discussed on B.A. level due to time and content limitations. The main emphasis lies on the Early- and Middle Byzantine eras and art during the Age of Iconoclasm, which coincides with the time frame of the lecturer's courses intended for B.A. level students. The key monuments will not necessarily be presented chronologically, but in a variety of contexts – political, social, religious, and other.

The discussed topics include (but are not limited to): the formation and development of Christian art; the question of continuity with the Roman past; the idea of the Empire and its visual expressions; the Emperor and Church as patrons of art; Iconoclasm and the image theory; etc.

• Robin Cormack, Byzantine Art, Oxford 2000. COBISS.SI-ID - 124380928

• John Beckwith, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Harmondsworth 1970. COBISS.SI-ID - 17668194

• John Beckwith, The Art of Constantinople, London – New York 1961. COBISS.SI-ID - 197216

• Ernst Kitzinger, Byzantine Art in the Making, London 1977. COBISS.SI-ID - 17667938

• David Talbot Rice, Art of the Byzantine Era, London 1963. COBISS.SI-ID - 1122395

• Helen C. Williams, William d. Wixom, The Glory of Byzantium. Art and Culture in the Middle Byzantine Era, New York 1997. COBISS.SI-ID 181431811