Robert S Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 279898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art: Correspondence, 1920–1957
From Crete to Singapore via Rome and St. Louis: An Orthodox icon becomes Catholic
N. G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance (2nd edition). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp xii + 245
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Empathetic Vision: Looking at and With a Performative Byzantine Miniature
A Byzantine Gospel Lectionary in Florence contains a detailed description of the liturgical rites on 1 September. The manuscript's illustration for that day is interpreted art historically and then read against that liturgy so as to distinguish the heuristic processes of the discipline from the empathetic vision of the person for whom the manuscript was made and used: the Patriarch of Constantinople. The display that art history assumes and creat…
The Slide Lecture, or the Work of Art 'History' in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Chora and the Great Church: Intervisuality in Fourteenth-Century Constantinople
In Gregoras’ history, the most important building project during the second decade of the fourteenth century is not Theodore Metochites’ redecoration of the Chora monastery, but Andronikos II’s restoration of II. Sophia and the nearby column of Justinian. Two mosaics at the Chora, the Deesis in the inner narthex and the adjacent lunette of Metochites and Christ, make visual reference to the Great Church. The nature of such relationships is explor…
Taxation with Representation. Visual narrative and the political field of the Kariye Camii
A visually prominent lunette mosaic at the fourteenth‐century Byzantine church of the Chora, also known as the Kariye Camii, is studied in relation to the large narrative programme of the church and to the economic and political contexts of its creation. The mural depicts Mary and Joseph registering to pay their taxes before the local governor in Bethlehem. Among the questions posed are the following: what and how did the scene represent; what di…
The Marian Icons of the Painter Fre Seyon: A Study in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Art, Patronage, and Spirituality
The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art. Paul Corby Finney
Armenian Gospel Iconography: The Tradition of the Glajor Gospel. Thomas F. Mathews , Avedis K. Sanjian
The Discourse of Icons, Then and Now
Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and Its Icons. Robin Cormack
Byzanz und der Westen: Studien zur Kunst des europäischen Mittelalters . Irmgard Hutter
The Mosaics and Frescoes of St. Mary Pammakaristos (Fethiye Camii) at Istanbul . Doula Mouriki , Cyril Mango , Hans Belting
The Slide Lecture, or the Work of Art 'History' in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Discourse of Icons, Then and Now
Empathetic Vision: Looking at and With a Performative Byzantine Miniature
A Byzantine Gospel Lectionary in Florence contains a detailed description of the liturgical rites on 1 September. The manuscript's illustration for that day is interpreted art historically and then read against that liturgy so as to distinguish the heuristic processes of the discipline from the empathetic vision of the person for whom the manuscript was made and used: the Patriarch of Constantinople. The display that art history assumes and creat…
The Mosaics and Frescoes of St. Mary Pammakaristos (Fethiye Camii) at Istanbul . Doula Mouriki , Cyril Mango , Hans Belting
Byzanz und der Westen: Studien zur Kunst des europäischen Mittelalters . Irmgard Hutter
Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and Its Icons. Robin Cormack
The Discourse of Icons, Then and Now
Armenian Gospel Iconography: The Tradition of the Glajor Gospel. Thomas F. Mathews , Avedis K. Sanjian
The Marian Icons of the Painter Fre Seyon: A Study in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Art, Patronage, and Spirituality
The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art. Paul Corby Finney
The Chora and the Great Church: Intervisuality in Fourteenth-Century Constantinople
In Gregoras’ history, the most important building project during the second decade of the fourteenth century is not Theodore Metochites’ redecoration of the Chora monastery, but Andronikos II’s restoration of II. Sophia and the nearby column of Justinian. Two mosaics at the Chora, the Deesis in the inner narthex and the adjacent lunette of Metochites and Christ, make visual reference to the Great Church. The nature of such relationships is explor…
Taxation with Representation. Visual narrative and the political field of the Kariye Camii
A visually prominent lunette mosaic at the fourteenth‐century Byzantine church of the Chora, also known as the Kariye Camii, is studied in relation to the large narrative programme of the church and to the economic and political contexts of its creation. The mural depicts Mary and Joseph registering to pay their taxes before the local governor in Bethlehem. Among the questions posed are the following: what and how did the scene represent; what di…
The Slide Lecture, or the Work of Art 'History' in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Empathetic Vision: Looking at and With a Performative Byzantine Miniature
A Byzantine Gospel Lectionary in Florence contains a detailed description of the liturgical rites on 1 September. The manuscript's illustration for that day is interpreted art historically and then read against that liturgy so as to distinguish the heuristic processes of the discipline from the empathetic vision of the person for whom the manuscript was made and used: the Patriarch of Constantinople. The display that art history assumes and creat…
N. G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance (2nd edition). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp xii + 245
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Crete to Singapore via Rome and St. Louis: An Orthodox icon becomes Catholic
Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art: Correspondence, 1920–1957
Art (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art history (9 works) · Classics (8 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (7 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Byzantine architecture (3 works) · Classics (3 works)