Linda Safran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1374875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Safran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Safran |
| SIGNATURE | SAFRAN L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Exceptional Early Byzantine Censer in Antalya
This study explores the imagery and meanings of an exceptional gilt-silver censer from the Sion Treasure, housed today in Antalya (Türkiye). The censer bears silver stamps that help date it late in the reign of Emperor Justinian I (ca. 550–65), as well as a dedicatory inscription that names the bishop who donated many other objects in that treasure. The Antalya censer stands out for its cylindrical form and for its figural frieze, which depicts e…
The Traprain Law jug with biblical scenes
The Traprain Law Treasure, discovered in 1919, is composed mostly of silver objects cut up and buried in Scotland in the first half of the 5th century AD. Among many fragmentary vessels, a small gilt-silver jug stands out for its principal register of four biblical scenes. Three are easily recognised as Adam and Eve, Moses Striking the Rock, and the Adoration of the Magi. This essay explicates a unique iconographic feature in the Moses episode an…
The Absent Image
This book professes to be about nothing, but it actually deals with something important, if heretofore widely neglected: the deliberately blank spaces, erasures, and artificially enlarged voids in late medieval European arts, especially illuminated manuscripts. Gertsman asserts, in engaging prose, that these fecund spaces of emptiness were meant to be filled in by a reader's active imagination, informed by contemporary developments in theology, p…
Early Byzantine Art in China
This chapter reviews textual, cartographic, and material evidence for contact between China and Byzantium from the fifth to the mid-eighth century. Objects from ‘Fulin’ found in tombs indicate that Byzantine goods, especially gold coins, reached China via Turkic and Sogdian intermediaries, where they inspired imitations. They seem to have been valued not only for their material but also for their positive associations with the West, associated wi…
Cave Temples of Dunhuang
Review Article| January 01 2020 Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road ed. by Neville Agnew, Marcia Reed, and Tevvy Ball Agnew, Neville; Reed, Marcia; Ball, Tevvy, eds., Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2016), 292 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 185–186. https://doi.or…
The Atlas of Ancient Rome
Review Article| January 01 2020 The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City ed. by Andrea Carandini with Paolo Carafa Carandini, Andrea; Carafa, Paolo, eds., The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City, trans. Halavais, Andrew Campbell, 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), vol. 1: Text and Images, 640 pp.; vol. 2: Tables and Indexes, 463 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other wor…
The Red Monastery Church
Book Review| April 01 2018 The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt ed. by Elizabeth S. Bolman Bolman, Elizabeth S., ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press/American Research Center in Egypt, 2016), 432 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 329–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/09617…
Two Classrooms in China
This article describes two different sessions taught at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts by Linda Safran and Adam S. Cohen as part of a three-year J. Paul Getty Foundation “Connecting Art Histories” initiative titled “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History.” While the essay engages with the particular challenges and satisfactions of teaching about medieval Sicily under Muslim rule (focusing on a tenth-century text ab…
Aisha's Cushion
Book Review| April 01 2015 Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam Elias, Jamal, Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 404 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 333. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872594 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Byzantium and Islam
Book Review| January 01 2015 Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition Evans, Helen C. and Ratliff, Brandie, eds., Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012), 352 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 109–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
"Byzantine" Art in Post-Byzantine South Italy
Art historians have long viewed southern Italy, especially the Salento region in Apulia, as a Byzantine artistic province even centuries after Byzantine rule ended there in c. 1070. The Orthodox monastery of Santa Maria di Cerrate, near Lecce, is widely considered to possess some of the region's "most Byzantine" paintings (twelfth to fourteenth centuries). Yet a close examination of these frescoes reveals significant iconographic and stylistic di…
Introduction
Beholding the Sacred Mysteries
Lieui sacré, lieu d'images
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Lieui sacré, lieu d'images
Beholding the Sacred Mysteries
Introduction
"Byzantine" Art in Post-Byzantine South Italy
Art historians have long viewed southern Italy, especially the Salento region in Apulia, as a Byzantine artistic province even centuries after Byzantine rule ended there in c. 1070. The Orthodox monastery of Santa Maria di Cerrate, near Lecce, is widely considered to possess some of the region's "most Byzantine" paintings (twelfth to fourteenth centuries). Yet a close examination of these frescoes reveals significant iconographic and stylistic di…
Aisha's Cushion
Book Review| April 01 2015 Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam Elias, Jamal, Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 404 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 333. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872594 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Byzantium and Islam
Book Review| January 01 2015 Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition Evans, Helen C. and Ratliff, Brandie, eds., Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012), 352 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 109–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
The Red Monastery Church
Book Review| April 01 2018 The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt ed. by Elizabeth S. Bolman Bolman, Elizabeth S., ed., The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press/American Research Center in Egypt, 2016), 432 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 329–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/09617…
Two Classrooms in China
This article describes two different sessions taught at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts by Linda Safran and Adam S. Cohen as part of a three-year J. Paul Getty Foundation “Connecting Art Histories” initiative titled “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History.” While the essay engages with the particular challenges and satisfactions of teaching about medieval Sicily under Muslim rule (focusing on a tenth-century text ab…
Cave Temples of Dunhuang
Review Article| January 01 2020 Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road ed. by Neville Agnew, Marcia Reed, and Tevvy Ball Agnew, Neville; Reed, Marcia; Ball, Tevvy, eds., Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2016), 292 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 185–186. https://doi.or…
The Atlas of Ancient Rome
Review Article| January 01 2020 The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City ed. by Andrea Carandini with Paolo Carafa Carandini, Andrea; Carafa, Paolo, eds., The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City, trans. Halavais, Andrew Campbell, 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), vol. 1: Text and Images, 640 pp.; vol. 2: Tables and Indexes, 463 pp. Linda Safran Linda Safran Search for other wor…
Early Byzantine Art in China
This chapter reviews textual, cartographic, and material evidence for contact between China and Byzantium from the fifth to the mid-eighth century. Objects from ‘Fulin’ found in tombs indicate that Byzantine goods, especially gold coins, reached China via Turkic and Sogdian intermediaries, where they inspired imitations. They seem to have been valued not only for their material but also for their positive associations with the West, associated wi…
The Absent Image
This book professes to be about nothing, but it actually deals with something important, if heretofore widely neglected: the deliberately blank spaces, erasures, and artificially enlarged voids in late medieval European arts, especially illuminated manuscripts. Gertsman asserts, in engaging prose, that these fecund spaces of emptiness were meant to be filled in by a reader's active imagination, informed by contemporary developments in theology, p…
An Exceptional Early Byzantine Censer in Antalya
This study explores the imagery and meanings of an exceptional gilt-silver censer from the Sion Treasure, housed today in Antalya (Türkiye). The censer bears silver stamps that help date it late in the reign of Emperor Justinian I (ca. 550–65), as well as a dedicatory inscription that names the bishop who donated many other objects in that treasure. The Antalya censer stands out for its cylindrical form and for its figural frieze, which depicts e…
The Traprain Law jug with biblical scenes
The Traprain Law Treasure, discovered in 1919, is composed mostly of silver objects cut up and buried in Scotland in the first half of the 5th century AD. Among many fragmentary vessels, a small gilt-silver jug stands out for its principal register of four biblical scenes. Three are easily recognised as Adam and Eve, Moses Striking the Rock, and the Adoration of the Magi. This essay explicates a unique iconographic feature in the Moses episode an…
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