An Obscure Portrait : Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art

Name: An Obscure Portrait
Brand: Pindar Press
SKU: 9781904597322
Price: 27600 KES
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ISBN: 9781904597322

by Mati Meyer

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Format Hardback

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 History of art

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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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