This two-volume set focuses on the material and visual cultures of one of the central territories in the premodern world: the Southern Caucasus, the stretch of land joining the Caspian…
In 1901 Nikodim Pavlovic Kondakov, one of the founders of art history in Russia and a specialist in medieval art, decided to undertake a surprising expedition. Driven by a desire…
The end of World War I in 1918 meant a radical transformation of Central Europe: the multicultural space of former empires became divided into individual nation-states. This altered all spheres…
Is it possible to “invent” the past? Through a series of studies, this volume explores the history of how this process occurred in Czechoslovakia within the period from about the…
Today, the question of the origins of Christian aesthetics is no longer a topical issue in medieval art history, although a persuasive answer has never been formulated. One of the…
If there is one constant in the history of Christianity and especially of the Western Church, it is its deep desire to be connected with its own past. From the…
L’autoreferenzialità quale prisma attraverso cui leggere la Milano tardoantica e medievale è il filo rosso sotteso ai sette saggi che compongono questo libro. Capitale dell’impero segnata dall’episcopato di Ambrogio, metropoli…
Dedicato a Serena Romano, professore di Storia dell’arte medievale, questo libro vorrebbe restituirle un po’ di quel tanto che ha offerto, in vari modi, a tutti quelli che hanno avuto…
The objective of this book is to draw attention to fifth-century Rome – to those hundred years which even today need to be looked at from different perspectives. It is…