Ravinder S Binning
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravinder S Binning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravinder S |
| FAMILY NAME | Binning |
| SIGNATURE | BINNING R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Association of Research Libraries |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images before Iconoclasm , by Alexei M. Sivertsev
New Paradigms for an Art History of Medieval Northern Africa
“Where the World Did Not Walk”. The Desert as Sacred Space on the Klimax Painting at Sinai
How did medieval art frame the desert as a sacred space? The twelfth-century Klimax panel, today at St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, offers insight into this question. Inspired by John of Sinai’s Klimax (or Ladder), the work depicts monks in a cosmic struggle unfolding in the desert. It has long been associated with a site-specific “Sinai style”, even as a depiction of the St Catherine’s surround itself. This essay reconsiders the relationship …
Africa & Byzantium. An Interview With Dr. Andrea Myers Achi
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) recently hosted the blockbuster exhibition, Africa & Byzantium, which ran from November 19, 2023, to March 3, 2024. This long-anticipated show and accompanying catalogue1 represent one of the first major exhibitions to place the contemporaneous arts of Byzantine, Coptic, Nubian, Ethiopian, and Islamic traditions in Africa side by side. Showcasing medieval Africa’s rich cultural heritage, complexity, power, and…
Sacred Shivering
Two tenth-century Byzantine ivories depict the freezing trial of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste with an unprecedented physical immediacy. If, in late antiquity, the convention was to depict martyrs in states of disassociation from suffering, these ivories capture their passion as an anguished, psychosomatic experience. This essay proffers new evidence to account for this shift. It demonstrates that the martyrs’ shivering posed a dual meaning previo…
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Sacred Shivering
Two tenth-century Byzantine ivories depict the freezing trial of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste with an unprecedented physical immediacy. If, in late antiquity, the convention was to depict martyrs in states of disassociation from suffering, these ivories capture their passion as an anguished, psychosomatic experience. This essay proffers new evidence to account for this shift. It demonstrates that the martyrs’ shivering posed a dual meaning previo…
New Paradigms for an Art History of Medieval Northern Africa
“Where the World Did Not Walk”. The Desert as Sacred Space on the Klimax Painting at Sinai
How did medieval art frame the desert as a sacred space? The twelfth-century Klimax panel, today at St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, offers insight into this question. Inspired by John of Sinai’s Klimax (or Ladder), the work depicts monks in a cosmic struggle unfolding in the desert. It has long been associated with a site-specific “Sinai style”, even as a depiction of the St Catherine’s surround itself. This essay reconsiders the relationship …
Africa & Byzantium. An Interview With Dr. Andrea Myers Achi
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) recently hosted the blockbuster exhibition, Africa & Byzantium, which ran from November 19, 2023, to March 3, 2024. This long-anticipated show and accompanying catalogue1 represent one of the first major exhibitions to place the contemporaneous arts of Byzantine, Coptic, Nubian, Ethiopian, and Islamic traditions in Africa side by side. Showcasing medieval Africa’s rich cultural heritage, complexity, power, and…
Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images before Iconoclasm , by Alexei M. Sivertsev
Art (5 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work)