Cross-cultural interpretations of imagery in the Middle Ages

• Autores: Barbara Zeitler
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 76, Nº 4, 1994, págs. 680-694
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.