Resources on Byzantine Art and Perception

Barber, C. 2002. Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm (Princeton).

Betancourt, R. 2016a. “Tempted to Touch: Tactility, Ritual, and Mediation in Byzantine Visuality.” Speculum 91, 3: 660–90.

Betancourt, R. 2016b. “The Icon’s Gold: A Medium of Light, Air and Space.” West 86th 23, 2: 252–58.

Brubaker, L. 1989. “Perception and Conception: Art, Theory and Culture in Ninth-Century Byzantium.” Word & Image 5, 1: 19–32.

Bynum, C. 2011. Christian Materiality. An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (New York).

Carr, A. 1997. “Court Culture and Cult Icons in Middle Byzantine Constantinople.” In Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204, edited by H. Maguire, 81–99 (Washington, DC).

Carr, A. 2016. “Reflections on the Medium of the Miraculous.” In Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, edited by S. E. G. Gerstel, 33–52 (Turnhout).

Constas, Father M. 2016. “Poetry and Painting in the Middle Byzantine Period: A Bilateral Icon from Kastoria and the Stavrotheotokia of Joseph the Hymnographer.” In Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, edited by S. E. G. Gerstel, 13–32 (Turnhout).

Cormack, R. 2000. “The Mother of God in the Mosaics of Hagia Sophia.” In Mother of God: Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art, edited by M. Vassilaki, 107–23 (Milan).

Cox Miller, P. 2009. The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (Philadelphia).

Dark, K., and J. Kostenec. “A New Archaeological Study of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.” In Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies: Sofia, 22–27 August 2011, edited by I. Iliev, I, 213–37 (Sofia).

Drpić, I. 2016. Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Late Byzantium (Cambridge and New York).

Elsner, J. 2014. “Introduction.” In Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture, edited by J. Elsner and M. Meyer, 1–34 (Cambridge).
Franses, R. 2003. “When All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter: On the Strange History of Looking at Byzantine Art.” In Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium: Studies Presented to Robin Cormack, edited by A. Eastmond and L. James, 13–24 (Aldershot).

Frolow, A. 1961. La relique de la Vraie Croix (Paris).

Gell, A. 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory (Oxford).

James, L. 1995. Light and Color in Byzantium. Oxford.

Kessler, H. 1994. “Facies bibliothecae revelata. Carolingian Art as Spiritual Seeing.” Testo e immagine nell’Alto medioevo, 533–84. Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo 41 (Spoleto).

Kessler, H. 2000. Spiritual Seeing. Picturing God’s Invisibility in Medieval Art (Philadelphia).

Kessler, H. 2005. “‘Hoc visibile imaginatum figurat illud invisible verum’: Imagining God in Pictures of Christ.” In Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Papers from “Verbal and Pictorial Imaging, Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400–1000,” edited by G. de Nie, K. Morrison, and M. Mostert, 291–325 (Turnhout).

Kiilerich, B. 2012. “The Aesthetic Viewing of Marble in Byzantium: From Global Impression to Focal Attention.” Arte Medievale Series IV, 2: 9–28.
Krueger, D. 2014. Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium (Philadelphia).

Limberis, V. 2011. Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs (Oxford).

Louth, A. 2005. “Christian Hymnography from Romanos the Melodist to John Damascene.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 57: 295–306.

Macrides, R., and P. Magdalino. 1988. “The Architecture of Ekphrasis: Construction and Context of Paul the Silentiary’s Poem on Hagia Sophia.” BMGS 12: 47–82.

Maguire, H. 1981. Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (Princeton).

Maguire, H. 2016. “Heaven on Earth: Neoplatonism in the Churches of Greece.” In Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, edited by S. E. J. Gerstel, 53–68 (Turnhout).

Mango, C. 1962. Materials for the Study of the Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul (Washington, DC).
Mango, C., and E. Hawkins. 1965. “The Apse Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul. Report on the Work Carried Out in 1964.” DOP 19: 113–51.

Nelson, R. 2000. “To Say and To See: Ekphrasis and Vision in Byzantium.” In Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance, edited by R. Nelson, 143–68 (Cambridge and New York).

Der Nersessian, S. 1952. “Le décor d’églises du IX siècle.” In Actes du VIe Congrès international des études byzantines, Paris 1948, 315–20 (Paris).

Papalexandrou, A. 2001. “Text in Context: Eloquent Monuments and the Byzantine Beholder.” Word & Image 17, 3: 259–283.

Peers, G. 2015. “Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and Its Exhibition.” Convivium 2, 2: 116–137.

Peers, G., ed. 2013. Byzantine Things in the World (Houston and New Haven).

Pentcheva, B. 2006. “The Performative Icon.” AB 88, 4: 631–55.

Pentcheva, B. 2007. “Epigrams on Icons.” In Art and Text in Byzantine Culture, edited by L. James, 120–38 (Cambridge and New York).

Pentcheva, B. 2009. “Moving Eyes: Surface and Shadow in the Byzantine Mixed-Media Relief Icon.” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 53: 223–34.

Pentcheva, B. 2010. The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium (University Park, PA).

Pentcheva, B. 2011. “Hagia Sophia and Multisensory Aesthetics.” Gesta 50, 2: 93–111.

Pentcheva, B. 2016a “Glittering Eyes: Animation in the Byzantine Eikōn and the Western Imago.” Codex Aqvilarensis 32: 209–26.
Pentcheva, B. 2016b. “Cross, Tunic, Body: Theology through the Phenomenology of Light.” In La stauroteca di Bessarione: Atti delle giornate internazionali di studio La stauroteca di Bessarione, edited by P. Schreiner and V. Poletto, 257–79 (Venice).

Pentcheva, B. 2017. Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (University Park, PA).

Pentcheva, B. 2019. “Transcendent Visions: Voice and Icon in Hagia Sophia.” In Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination, edited by B. Pentcheva, 101–15 (New York).

Rhoby, A., ed. 2009–2014. Byzantinische Epigramme in inscriftlicher Überlieferung (Vienna).

Roberts, M. 1989. The Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity (Ithaca and London).

Scarry, E. 1990. Dreaming by the Book (Princeton).

Teteriatnikov, N. 1998. Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: The Fossati Restoration and the Work of the Byzantine Institute (Washington, DC).

Webb, R. 1999. “The Aesthetics of Sacred Space: Narrative, Metaphor and Motion in Ekphraseis of Church Buildings.” DOP 53: 59–74.
Webb, R. 2009. Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice (Farnham).

Webb, R. 2017. “Spatial Embodiment and Agency in Ekphraseis of Church Buildings.” In Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics and Ritual, edited by B. V. Pentcheva, 163–75 (Abingdon and New York).

Webb, R., and L. James. 1991. “‘To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’: Ekphrasis and Art in Byzantium.” AH 14: 1–17.

Wellesz, E. 1961. History of Byzantine Music (Oxford).


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