Ancient Engraved Gems in the National Museum in Kracow

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The collection of ancient engraved gems in the National Museum in Krakow is considerable in size and top in quality. It consists mostly of the specimens assembled by the extraordinary collector and art dealer Constantine Schmidt-Ciążyński (1818-1889). Almost 780 cameos, …

»Christus und die minnende Seele«

An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography

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The late medieval verse dialogue ‘Christus und die minnende Seele’ portrays the journey of the soul as the bride of Christ toward mystical union in a series of 20 to 24 individual scenes. This study provides for the first time …

Byzanz, der Westen und das »wahre« Kreuz

Die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland

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Seit der legendären, früh mit Kaiserin Helena in Verbindung gebrachten Auffindung des Passionskreuzes Christi in Jerusalem, gehören Reliquien des so gennanten ‚wahren‘ Kreuzes zu den heilsgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Objekten der Christenheit. Gegenstand des vorliegenden Buches ist die Geschichte dieser in Byzanz …

Rescued Armenian Treasures from Cilicia

Sacred Art from the Museum in Antelias, Lebanon

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The Christian-Armenian culture in Cilicia came to its end by the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the times of World War I. During the deportations, the monastic brotherhood of the Catholikosate of Cilicia was expelled from …