Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Imagery in the Middle Ages
B. Zeitler. The Art Bulletin, 76 (4):
680--694(1994)
Abstract
The encounter between Byzantium and the medieval West forms the basis for this investigation of the cross-cultural perception of imagery. How did Byzantine viewers perceive Western medieval images? How did Western viewers look at Byzantine images? These questions are examined by considering a passage from a fifteenth-century Byzantine account of the Church Council in Florence, the Latin annotations in the fourteenth-century Bulgarian version of the World Chronicle of Constantine Manasses, and a description of the Anastasis mosaic in the Holy Sepulcher by a twelfth-century Western pilgrim.
%0 Journal Article
%1 1994zeitler
%A Zeitler, Barbara
%D 1994
%I College Art Association
%J The Art Bulletin
%K MarkoMarulić medievistika rdcg
%N 4
%P 680--694
%T Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Imagery in the Middle Ages
%U http://www.jstor.org/stable/3046063
%V 76
%X The encounter between Byzantium and the medieval West forms the basis for this investigation of the cross-cultural perception of imagery. How did Byzantine viewers perceive Western medieval images? How did Western viewers look at Byzantine images? These questions are examined by considering a passage from a fifteenth-century Byzantine account of the Church Council in Florence, the Latin annotations in the fourteenth-century Bulgarian version of the World Chronicle of Constantine Manasses, and a description of the Anastasis mosaic in the Holy Sepulcher by a twelfth-century Western pilgrim.