| Description |
1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- Prologue -- Whence and Whither: A Critical Review of Artistic Relations -- One A Prosopography of Encounters -- Italians in Cyprus: The Beginnings -- Merchants and Trade -- Church -- Religious and Monastic Orders in Cyprus -- Military Orders -- Pilgrimage -- Two Southern Italy, Cyprus, and the Holy Land: A Tale of Parallel Aesthetics? -- Lost in Academic Taxonomies |
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Lusignan Cyprus and the Visual Colonisation of Apulia? -- Serendipitous Encounters -- Apulia and Cyprus: Towards a Historicity of Contacts -- Three Deconstructing Myths: Transmutations of Madonna and Panagia between Italy and Cyprus -- The Madonna della Madia in the Cathedral of Monopoli: Deciphering the Supplicants Conundrum -- The Madonna della Madia: Stylistic and Iconographical Enquiries -- The Madonna di Andria: A Painting Without Legends -- Madonne and Panagie at the Crossroads of 'Crusader Art' -- Four Thomas Aquinas, the Dominicans, and Artistic Patronage in Trecento Cyprus |
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Giovanni Conti the Aesthete: 'Il Ditto Buon Arcivescovo Fece in Vita Molti Beni' -- The Chapel of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Nicosia: The Sources -- Saint Thomas Aquinas: Vita Sancta and his Cypriot Associations -- Saint Thomas Aquinas' Visual Representations in Italian Art: A Brief Treatment -- The Frescoes and Altarpiece in the Nicosia Cathedral: A Tentative Reconstruction -- Style and Design of the Aquinas Frescoes and Altarpiece -- Aquinas Chapel: Royal and Religious Patronage -- Five The Peregrinations of a Cypriot King in Italian Material Culture, 1362-1368 |
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A Chivalrous King Reclaims the Holy Land -- 'The King of Cyprus ... Was the Most Honourable Lord Riding the Best Horse' -- A Cypriot Crusader in the Chapter House of Santa Maria Novella -- Peter I Lusignan as King David -- A Pious King on the Side of the Impenitent Thief? -- The End of a Peregrination, The End of a Life -- Six Art in the Interstices: Hybrid Italian Panels and Cypriot Nobility -- A Critical Fortune at Play -- Iconographic Negotiations -- Stylistic Considerations -- The Painters of the Pelendri Panels: In Search of an Identity -- Function and Placement in Context |
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In Search of Patrons and Beholders: Pelendri and the Podocataros -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 Italian Clerics in Cyprus (or Related to cyprus), c. 1250-1400 -- Appendix 2 The Cult of the Virgin Hodegetria in Southern Italy -- Appendix 3 Saint Thomas Aquinas in Italian Art -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers novel viewpoints and material on Byzantine and Italian arts from a comparative perspective |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Art and society -- Italy -- History -- To 1500
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Art and society -- Cyprus -- History -- To 1500
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Art, Medieval -- Italy.
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Art, Medieval -- Cyprus
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Art and society
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Art, Medieval
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International relations
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Relations -- Cyprus
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Cyprus -- Relations -- Italy
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| Subject |
Cyprus
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009041452 |
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9781009041454 |
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