This book addresses typology of Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture in eight wide-ranging contributions from an international group of scholars. A dialogue between type and its ultimate source, archetype, surpasses issues of formalism and conventional chronological narratives to suggest a more nuanced approach to typology as a systematic and systemic classification of types in the visual landscape of the pagans, Jews, and Christians.
Set against the contemporaneous cultural context, select examples of Mediterranean material culture confirm the great importance of type-and-archetype constructs for theoretical discourse on architecture and visual arts. Contributors are Anna Adashinskaya, Jelena Anelkovi Graar, Jelena Bogdanovi, edomila Marinkovi, Marina Mihaljevi, Ljubomir Milanovi, Cecilia Olovsdotter, and Ida Sinkevi.
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| Introduction |
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1 Type and Archetype in Late Antique Empress Imagery in the Central Balkans |
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2 The Hodegetriai: Replicating the Icon of the Hodegetria by Means of Church Dedications |
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3 The Body of Christ as Relic Archetype |
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4 From Earth to Heaven: Transcendental Concepts of Architecture in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Art (c.300--700) |
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5 Representation of the Temple in the Sarajevo Haggadah: Type or Archetype? |
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6 Type and Archetype: Echoing Architectural Forms of the Church of Nea Moni |
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7 In Search of Archetype: Five-Domed Churches in Middle and Later Byzantine Architecture |
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8 The Canopy as `Primitive Hut' in Byzantine Architecture |
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| Conclusion: Highlighted Themes, Explanatory Terms, and Critical Mechanisms |
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Jelena Bogdanovi, Ph.D. (2008), Princeton University, is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. Among her authored and edited books are The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (2017) and Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy (2021).
Ida Sinkevi, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton University, is the Arthur J. 55 and Barbara Rothkopf Professor of Art History at Lafayette College. Her books are The Church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi (2000) and Knights in Shining Armor (2006).
Marina Mihaljevi, Ph.D. (2010), Princeton University, is an Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at the State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia. Her publications include Change in Byzantine Architecture (2012) and Üçayak: A Forgotten Byzantine Church (2014).
edomila Marinkovi, Ph.D. (2004), University of Belgrade, is an independent researcher from based in Belgrade. Her books include Image of the Completed Building (2007), Jews in Belgrade 1521-1942 (2020), and Synagogues in Vojvodina (2022).
