Justin Willson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1033490 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Justin Willson |
| NOMBRES | Justin |
| APELLIDO | Willson |
| FIRMA | WILLSON J |
| AFILIACIONES | The Icon Museum and Study Center |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy
The medieval Slavs approached Byzantine speculative thought with caution. This essay explores Slavic hesitancy towards Greek theoretical ambition within the writings on visions of the Bulgarian theologian Euthymios of Tarnovo. Whereas the Greek hesychast theologian Gregory Palamas argued that the saints behold God's glory without mediation, Euthymios took a more modest approach, asserting that angels arbitrate between heaven and earth and bestow …
Virtue Idealized in the Golden Chamber of Ivan the Terrible
In 1547 Muscovite church officials oversaw a repainting of the Golden Chamber of Ivan the Terrible. The cycle displayed scenes of war on the walls and vaults, whereas the dome showcased Solomonic wisdom and the cardinal virtues. Citing Western European literature and prints, scholars have explained the presence of the cardinal virtues via Renaissance influence; however, Byzantine writers and painters had long associated the emperor with the cardi…
Andrey Rublev
On the Aesthetic of Diagrams in Byzantine Art
Byzantine art has a reputation for being less based in diagrams than Western medieval art. The present essay offers a reassessment of this view through an examination of debates between Greeks and Latins from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. This cultural give-and-take led to a reconceptualization of Trinitarian iconography among Greek theologians. Taking as its case study an overlooked class of theological diagrams, this paper suggests tha…
Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow
Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d. 1556), which played an important role in shaping the Church’s thinking. Maksim’s letter helps to explain why Jerusalem ideology took a very different path in Russia th…
The terminus in Late Byzantine literature and aesthetics
In medieval Greek manuscripts, scribes often compared their completion of the transcription of a codex to a ship reaching a harbor. Scholars have noted that this nautical imagery shaped how poets conceptualized their work as authors, but the harbor metaphor also carried over to metaliterary and ekphrastic passages theorizing the affect of images and the built environment. Thus, a technical metaphor born to describe the physical labor of book-maki…
The Origin of the Crafts According to Byzantine Rosette Caskets
Byzantium, like many other cultures, possessed a story of the origin of the crafts. Three ivory caskets in Cleveland, Saint Petersburg, and Darmstadt depict the traditional story of Adam and Eve, only they include an unusual scene of the first couple at the forge as well as an image of Plutus, the god of wealth. Examining Byzantine ideas about the discovery of the technai, this article interprets these boxes as object-genealogies, tracing their o…
A Meadow that Lifts the Soul
Following Hans Blumenberg, this essay studies the genealogy of the idea of originality in a medieval metaphor characterizing the church interior as a "meadow" or λειμῶν (leimôn). Scholars focusing on this metaphor have neglected its use as a description of artistic process. Procopius of Caesarea, John of Damascus, and Leo VI, "the Wise." form the basis of this study, which argues that compiling anthologies (Lat. florilegia, lit. "gatherings of fl…
A gift no more
For nearly a century, scholars have interpreted a Byzantine reliquary of the True Cross at the Vatican Museums using the framework of gift-giving, as famously theorized by Marcel Mauss (figs. 1a–b).1 Brought to light in 1903, the reliquary is constructed of wood and consists of a shallow base with a sliding lid.2 Decorated with painted images outside and in, the reliquary’s unusual iconography has led scholars to suggest that it must have been de…
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A gift no more
For nearly a century, scholars have interpreted a Byzantine reliquary of the True Cross at the Vatican Museums using the framework of gift-giving, as famously theorized by Marcel Mauss (figs. 1a–b).1 Brought to light in 1903, the reliquary is constructed of wood and consists of a shallow base with a sliding lid.2 Decorated with painted images outside and in, the reliquary’s unusual iconography has led scholars to suggest that it must have been de…
The Origin of the Crafts According to Byzantine Rosette Caskets
Byzantium, like many other cultures, possessed a story of the origin of the crafts. Three ivory caskets in Cleveland, Saint Petersburg, and Darmstadt depict the traditional story of Adam and Eve, only they include an unusual scene of the first couple at the forge as well as an image of Plutus, the god of wealth. Examining Byzantine ideas about the discovery of the technai, this article interprets these boxes as object-genealogies, tracing their o…
A Meadow that Lifts the Soul
Following Hans Blumenberg, this essay studies the genealogy of the idea of originality in a medieval metaphor characterizing the church interior as a "meadow" or λειμῶν (leimôn). Scholars focusing on this metaphor have neglected its use as a description of artistic process. Procopius of Caesarea, John of Damascus, and Leo VI, "the Wise." form the basis of this study, which argues that compiling anthologies (Lat. florilegia, lit. "gatherings of fl…
The terminus in Late Byzantine literature and aesthetics
In medieval Greek manuscripts, scribes often compared their completion of the transcription of a codex to a ship reaching a harbor. Scholars have noted that this nautical imagery shaped how poets conceptualized their work as authors, but the harbor metaphor also carried over to metaliterary and ekphrastic passages theorizing the affect of images and the built environment. Thus, a technical metaphor born to describe the physical labor of book-maki…
On the Aesthetic of Diagrams in Byzantine Art
Byzantine art has a reputation for being less based in diagrams than Western medieval art. The present essay offers a reassessment of this view through an examination of debates between Greeks and Latins from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. This cultural give-and-take led to a reconceptualization of Trinitarian iconography among Greek theologians. Taking as its case study an overlooked class of theological diagrams, this paper suggests tha…
Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow
Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d. 1556), which played an important role in shaping the Church’s thinking. Maksim’s letter helps to explain why Jerusalem ideology took a very different path in Russia th…
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy
The medieval Slavs approached Byzantine speculative thought with caution. This essay explores Slavic hesitancy towards Greek theoretical ambition within the writings on visions of the Bulgarian theologian Euthymios of Tarnovo. Whereas the Greek hesychast theologian Gregory Palamas argued that the saints behold God's glory without mediation, Euthymios took a more modest approach, asserting that angels arbitrate between heaven and earth and bestow …
Virtue Idealized in the Golden Chamber of Ivan the Terrible
In 1547 Muscovite church officials oversaw a repainting of the Golden Chamber of Ivan the Terrible. The cycle displayed scenes of war on the walls and vaults, whereas the dome showcased Solomonic wisdom and the cardinal virtues. Citing Western European literature and prints, scholars have explained the presence of the cardinal virtues via Renaissance influence; however, Byzantine writers and painters had long associated the emperor with the cardi…
Andrey Rublev
Art (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 obras) · Classics (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Byzantine architecture (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 obras)