Facing crisis : art as politics in fourteenth-century Venice / Stefania Gerevini.
Yer Numarası
B.II/0342
ISBN
9780884025030 (hardcover)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2024.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xii, 240 sayfa : resim (çoğu renkli), plan ; 29 cm.
Dizi
Dumbarton Oaks studies ; 50
Genel Not
İndeks s. 233-240.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. 213-[232].
İçindekiler Notu
CHAPTER 1. FACING CRISIS. The legend of the storm : sanctity, politics, and material history in Trecento Venice -- A perfect storm? Contextualizing the fourteenth-century renewal of San Marco -- Law and order : Andrea Dandolo's legal initiatives and historical writings -- Thinking through crisis : a vocabulary for uncertainty -- CHAPTER 2. THE HIGH ALTAR : Byzantine art made “history“ -- Two altarpieces for San Marco : the Pala d'Oro and the Pala Feriale -- Facing crisis : liturgy, history, and miracle making -- Facing krisis : Byzantine art between history and eschaton -- CHAPTER 3. THE CHAPEL OF SANT'ISIDORO : The art of conflict -- The Chapel of Sant'Isidoro and the cult of St. Isidore in Venice : an overview -- Making St. Isidore : Eastern saints, hagiographic conventions, and the staging of a new saintly cult in San Marco -- Holy defenders, military conflict, and crusading ideology in the Mediterranean -- Imaging authority : the doge, the patriciate, and Venice's “dominion of the sea“ -- Conclusion : History writing, image making, and political krisis -- Epilogue : Catastrophe, averted -- CHAPTER 4. THE BAPTISTERY OF SAN MARCO : Visual constitutions -- The baptistery of San Marco : an overview -- Medieval baptism between religious initiation and civic induction -- Imagery, eschatology, and liturgy -- Monumental crisis? Community, disunity, and assimilation -- A humble sovereign? The Crucifixion mosaic as a state portrait -- CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION : Art as politics.
Özet, vb.
“Though Venice emerged as a leading Mediterranean power in the Trecento, the city faced a series of crises during a brief but cataclysmic period coinciding with Andrea Dandolo's dogeship (1343-1354): earthquakes, disease, fierce military conflicts, and dramatic political and institutional tensions had the republic on edge. It was nevertheless precisely at this time that the government sponsored the ambitious and sumptuous artistic campaigns in San Marco that are at the heart of this book: a reliquary-chapel, a new baptistery, and a folding altarpiece, all masterpieces crafted with unparalleled technical skill, blending Byzantine and Italianate visual forms. Far from being mere artistic commissions, these works were affirmative political interventions that interrogated the meaning of community, authority, and (shared) political leadership at a time when those notions were unsettled. Looking beyond established concepts of triumph and imperialism, this book situates the artistic interactions between Byzantium and Venice into ongoing processes of state formation and attests to the power of images to inform (and transform) political imaginations in troubled times. This study thus offers new insights into how medieval communities across the Mediterranean understood and responded to uncertainty through the visual, and in doing so, probes the value of “crisis“ as a methodological framework“-- Arka kapak.