<p>Ravenna was one of the most significant administrative, political, and religious centres of the late antique period. This book focuses on the period between the transfer of the imperial court to Ravenna (402) and the last western emperor Romulus Augustus' deposition by the Germanic commander Odoacer (476), a period when Ravenna was the seat of western emperors. The book is premised on the author's conviction that individual surviving examples of architecture, along with their decoration, sarcophagi, ivory, and gold objects, can be best understood not only by examining their historical context and iconography, but also looking at the very material of these objects and how their production was organised. The book therefore focuses primarily on craftsmen and their traditions, and deliberate breaks with tradition, and on the way workmen moved about the late antique world and thereby fostered the exchange and spread of technology and artistic models. It thus present Ravenna not as an isolated phenomenon (as Ravenna is very often presented in the literature) but as one of many players in the political, ecclesiastical, and social games of the late antique world.</p>

Ravenna: Sedes Imperii: Artistic Trajectories in the Late Antique Mediterranean (I Libri Di Viella: Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia, 8)

Arts & Photography

Frantova, Zuzana

History & Criticism

Viella - Liberia Editrice

<p>Today, the question of the origins of Christian aesthetics is no longer a topical issue in medieval art history, although a persuasive answer has never been formulated. One of the reasons for this oblivion deals with the looming figure of Josef Strzygowski, who published his pivotal volume Orient oder Rom in 1901, now discredited for its racial and proto-Nazi ideas. However, the debate does not concern Strzygowski alone: the prodromes of this critical concept go back to the nineteenth century, when the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires fought to control contested territories, and studies of the humanities mirrored these conflicts. This volume, originating in the urgency to reflect on this pivotal conundrum in our field, attempts to reconstruct the (mis)fortune of a question that, according to Alois Riegl, "is the most important and most trenchant one in the entire history of mankind to date".</p>

Orient Oder Rom?: History and Reception of a Historiographical Myth (1901-1970) (I Libri Di Viella. Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensi)

Diebold, William J.

Cormack, Robin

Filipová, Marta

Kadoi, Yuka

Foletti, Ivan

Benesovska, Klara

Heckova, Petra

Kok, Elif

Lovino, Francesco

Palladino, Adrien

Viella Editrice

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