Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium

"The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first investigation of the church in more than thirty years, and is extensively illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with many images that have never previously been published." "Antony Eastmond examines the architectural, sculptural and painted decorations of the church, placing them in the context of contemporary developments elsewhere in the Byzantine world, in Seljuq Anatolia and among the Caucasian neighbours of Trebizond. Knowledge of this area has been transformed in the last twenty years, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The new evidence that has emerged enables a radically different interpretation of the church to be reached, and raises questions about cultural interchange on the borders of the Christian and Muslim worlds of eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus and Persia."--Jacket.

First sentence: The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond (plates I, II) was built and decorated in the reign of the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63).

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing

Editions

1

Pages

208

ISBN

9780754635758

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