History of art

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst. Bestandskataloge

Band 3: Spätantike, byzantinische und postbyzantinische Keramik

The Museum of Byzantine Art in the Bode Museum in Berlin is in the possession of over 1300 Byzantine clay vessels, and others made in the Byzantine tradition, dating from the 4th...

The Sack of Rome in 410 AD

The Event, its Context, and its Impact

On 24 August 410 the city of Rome the Goths led by their king Alaric captured and looted the city of Rome for three days. This was the first conquest of Rome in 800 years, an...

Dismember Remember

Das anatomische Theater von Lina Saneh und Rabih Mroué

What happens if a body is dissected with words rather than physically? If what is taken apart is reassembled? What impact does this have on how we see things? This volume is the...

Divrigi

Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein

Since the medieval building complex consisting of the Friday mosque and the psychiatric hospital was declared “World Cultural Heritage Site” in 1986 the small provincial town of...

Die Karolingischen Miniaturen VIII

Nachträge und Gesamtregister

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Der Band beinhaltet Nachträge zu der zwischen 1930 und 2009 in sieben Bänden vorgelegten Reihe der...

Die Bildnisse des Tiberius

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Der erste Kaiser des Römischen Reiches, Augustus, war darauf bedacht, eine Dynastie zu begründen. Als Nachfolger...

Skulpturengarten Wolf Spemann

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Der Skulpturengarten von Wolf Spemann in Wiesbaden ist nur einem kleinen Kreis von Kunstinteressierten bekannt....

Late Antique and Early Christian Gems

Throughout the Middle Ages, Roman gems and cameos were highly valued as intrinsically precious objects or even as possessing magical properties. During the Renaissance, large...

Late Byzantine Rings, 1204–1453

“Late Byzantine Rings, 1204-1453” is the first study of the rings of the last years of the Byzantine Empire, the period encompassing the Latin occupation of Constantinople...

Scribes, Texts, and Rituals in Early Tibet and Dunhuang

Proceedings of the Third Old Tibetan Studies Panel held at the Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010

This volume presents new findings and original research concerning early Tibet and the social and the Tibetan Empire (c. 600–850 CE). Demonstrating the methodological breadth of...

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book...

Madrider Mitteilungen

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J. LINSTÄDTER, M. ASCHRAFI, H. IBOUHOUTEN, CHR. ZIELHOFER, J. BUSSMANN, K. DECKERS, H. MÜLLER-SIGMUND und R....

Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der...

Kunst von unten? Stil und Gesellschaft in der antiken Welt von der »arte plebea« bis heute

Arte dal basso? Stile e società nel mondo antico, dall’ »arte plebea« ad oggi. Beiträge zu einem Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstags von Paul Zanker, Rom, Villa Massimo, 8. bis 9. Juni 2007

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli’s seminal article on the “Arte plebea” (1967) voiced the requirement that classical archaeology be pursued in a new way, as a critical discipline with...

Inschriften als Zeugnisse kulturellen Gedächtnisses

40 Jahre Deutsche Inschriften in Göttingen. Beiträge zum Jubiläumskolloquium vom 22. Oktober 2010 in Göttingen

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Unter diesem Motto wurde mit einem Kolloquium zum Thema „Inschriften als Zeugnisse kulturellen Gedächtnisses“ an...

Josef Strzygowski und die Berliner Museen

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Vor 150 Jahren, am 7. März 1862, wurde Josef Strzygowski in Westgalizien (heute Polen) geboren. Nach einem...

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 3

Ornament has always been regarded as a field in which Islamic Art has excelled. However, it can be debated whether ornamental treatment of surfaces can actually be seen as a...

Die Masken aus der Nekropole von Lipari

In the necropolis of Lipari (Italy) a great amount of terracotta masks from the 4th and early 3rd century B. C. have been found –– an important local speciality. Their study as...

Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in...

Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit

This volume examines important complexes of late antique and Visigothic villas in rural areas throughout the Iberian peninsula with regard to the process of Christianization,...