"Rafa± Quirini-Pop±awski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts scattered around the Black Sea, an area whose cultural history is little known. The artistic creativity of the region emerges as extraordinarily rich and colorful, with a variety of heterogeneous, hybrid and intermingled characteristics. The books questions the extent to which the descriptor "Genoese" can be applied to the settlements' artistic production; Quirini-Pop±awski demonstrates that, despiteentrenched views of these colonies as centres of Italian and Latin culture, it was in fact Greek and Armenian art that was of greater importance"--
Rafal Quirini-Poplawski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts around the Black Sea. He argues that artistic production was less “Genoese” than previously thought, but nevertheless extraordinarily rich and colorful, clearly demonstrating intercultural exchange.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1The Aims of the Book
2State of Research Literature Review
3Sources and Approaches
1 Historical Introduction
1History of the Genoese Colonies in the Context of the History of the Black
Sea Basin in the Late Medieval Period
2The Legal and Organisational Frameworks of Construction Activity and
Crafts in the Colonies. Origin of Builders and Craftsmen
2 The Topography of the Colonies and Secular Buildings
1The Topography of the Colonies
2Secular Buildings
3 Sacral Buildings
1Introduction
2The Churches of Caffa
3The Churches of Pera
4Churches and Other Religious Buildings in Soldaia, Cembalo, Trebizond,
Samastri, and Vosporo
4 Bas-Relief Decoration
1Review of Monuments
2Analysis
5 Painting and Applied Arts
1Monumental Painting
2Panel and Miniature Painting
3Applied Arts
4Numismatics and Sphragistics
Conclusion
Catalogue
Bibliography
Index
Rafa Quirini-Popawski, Ph.D. (2005), Jagiellonian University, is a medieval art historian at this university. He has published on sacral art in Ukraine, Romanesque sculpture in Poland, and late medieval art in the Black Sea Basin.
