Alice Isabella Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1235076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Isabella Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice Isabella |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1242-4287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages
The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia
Rethinking the Medieval Visual Culture of Eastern Europe
This article explores how the visual culture of Eastern Europe has been studied and often excluded from the grander narratives of art history and more specialized conversations due to political and cultural limitations, as well as bias in the field. The history and visual culture of Eastern Europe have been shaped by contacts with Byzantium, transforming, in local contexts, aspects of the rich legacy of the empire before and after the fall of Con…
Traditions and Transformations
Space, Image, Light
Sunlight has long been harnessed to define and accentuate sacred space. This study explores several light phenomena carefully observed in the late fifteenth-century church of the Holy Cross at the former Pătrăuţi Monastery in Moldavia (modern Romania), arguing that the edifice was designed and decorated relative to the direction of sunlight on important dates throughout the liturgical year. While such use of natural light has been observed in oth…
Byzantine Artistic Traditions in Moldavian Church Embroideries
This article examines the range of religious embroideries produced in Moldavia during the fifteenth century, and especially in the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. These church embroideries offer iconographies, styles, and techniques that both continued and adapted Byzantine artistic traditions and image types. The objects under consideration consist of liturgical vestments and veils, as well as tomb covers that reveal through th…
The Athonite Patronage of Stephen III of Moldavia, 1457–1504
The Athonite Patronage of Stephen III of Moldavia, 1457–1504
Space, Image, Light
Sunlight has long been harnessed to define and accentuate sacred space. This study explores several light phenomena carefully observed in the late fifteenth-century church of the Holy Cross at the former Pătrăuţi Monastery in Moldavia (modern Romania), arguing that the edifice was designed and decorated relative to the direction of sunlight on important dates throughout the liturgical year. While such use of natural light has been observed in oth…
Byzantine Artistic Traditions in Moldavian Church Embroideries
This article examines the range of religious embroideries produced in Moldavia during the fifteenth century, and especially in the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. These church embroideries offer iconographies, styles, and techniques that both continued and adapted Byzantine artistic traditions and image types. The objects under consideration consist of liturgical vestments and veils, as well as tomb covers that reveal through th…
The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia
Rethinking the Medieval Visual Culture of Eastern Europe
This article explores how the visual culture of Eastern Europe has been studied and often excluded from the grander narratives of art history and more specialized conversations due to political and cultural limitations, as well as bias in the field. The history and visual culture of Eastern Europe have been shaped by contacts with Byzantium, transforming, in local contexts, aspects of the rich legacy of the empire before and after the fall of Con…
Traditions and Transformations
Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Byzantine architecture (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)