An Obscure Portrait : Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art
by
Mati Meyer
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1904597327
ISBN-13
9781904597322
Publisher
Pindar Press
Imprint
Pindar Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2009
Print length
572 Pages
Weight
1,886 grams
Dimensions
17.80 x 24.70 x 4.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400
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This book explores depictions of women's daily life in Byzantine art from the 4th to the Empire's end. It covers aspects like childbearing, motherhood, household work, and women in various roles. The book provides insight into women's experiences in Byzantine society through art.
Recent discussions on Byzantine art have been dominated by the question of representing realia . Among these, however, the way works of art reflect the daily life of women have not received much space or attention. The present book studies various images representing women''s status and her performative tasks, and their significance from the fourth century to the fall of the Empire, through analysis of archaeological evidence and works of art. It addresses a wide range of questions, some pertaining both to pictorial traditions and to their late antique antecedents, others peculiar to changing and evolving Byzantine culture and mentality. The book aims to lift a veil from known and less known works of art and to present the rarely described picture of the daily life of women in Byzantine art over a very wide chronological span of time, in an effort to expand our knowledge of women in Byzantium and their realia .
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