Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean


Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean

Présentation d’ouvrage dans le cadre du programme sur la Grèce franque

 

Avec les interventions de | Θα μιλήσουν | Speeches by
Anthi Andronikou University of Glasgow
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Justine M. Andrews University of New Mexico
Tassos Papacostas King’s College London
Geoffrey Meyer-Fernandez École française d’Athènes

 

This volume explores the social, cultural, religious and trade encounters between Italy and Cyprus during the late Middle Ages, from ca. 1200-1400, and situates them within several Mediterranean contexts. Revealing the complex artistic exchange between the two regions for the first time, it probes the rich but neglected cultural interaction through comparison of the intriguing thirteenth-century wall paintings in rock-cut churches of Apulia and Basilicata, the puzzling panels of the Madonna della Madia and the Madonna di Andria, and painted chapels in Cyprus, Lebanon, and Syria. Andronikou also investigates fourteenth-century cross-currents that have not been adequately studied, notably the cult of Saint Aquinas in Cyprus, Crusader propaganda in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and a unique series of icons crafted by Venetian painters working in Cyprus. Offering new insights into Italian and Byzantine visual cultures, this book contributes to a broader understanding of cultural production and worldviews of the medieval Mediterranean.