Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

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In seinem Jahrbuch (JdI) publiziert das Deutsche Archäologische Institut seit 1885 jährlich im Schnitt sieben Aufsätze zu archäologischen Themen von der Vorgeschichte bis in die Spätantike mit Schwerpunkt auf der griechisch-römischen Zeit. Aktuelle Fragestellungen zu Kunst- und Stilgeschichte, Ikonographie und …

Iberische Halbinsel und Marokko

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The study of Christian-antique sarcophagi, decorated with reliefs, is a major task of Early Christian and Byzantine Archaeology. This fourth volume of the »Repertorium der christlich-antiken Sarkophage« by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) documents sarcophagi from the geographical area of …

Konstantinopel

Kleinasien − Thracia. Syria. Palaestina − Arabia

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Sarkophagi are a group of monuments, which belongs to the core area of art and culture as well of the Imperial Roman as of the Early Christian and Byzantine Empire. In this volume of the »Repertorium der christlich-antiken Sarkophage« are …

Parasema

Offizielle Symbole griechischer Poleis und Bundesstaaten

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In this study the original Greek phenomenon of state symbols, so-called Parasema, is examined for the first time and comprehensively. These mostly small symbols that Greek poleis and states used as state symbols from the Archaic to the end of …

Attisch rotfigurige und schwarzgefirnißte Lekanides

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Subject of the book is the cultural-historical significance of the lekanis produced in Athens in the 5th and 4th century BC, reaching its zenith in the first half of the 4th century BC. Investigated are function, shape development, workshops, iconography, …

Das Wort im Bild

Untersuchung zu den Ikonographien von Mönchen und Märtyrern in Ägypten und zu ihren Grundlagen in der koptischen Hagiographie

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In the Coptic Church, numerous pictorial representations with Christian content attest their deep significance for the Coptic faith. In order to give expression to individual motifs, individual passages from various texts were transformed into works of representational art, and thus …

Die Codices iconographici der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Teil 1: Die Handschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts

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Der Fonds der »Codices iconographici« der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München umfasst spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Bilderhandschriften und Bildsammlungen mit nur geringem Textanteil. Er ist thematisch gegliedert und enthält u.a. Werke zur Architektur, Astronomie, Botanik, Genealogie, Heraldik, zum Kostüm- und Kriegswesen und zur …

Erhabene Bilder

Die Kameen in der Antikensammlung Berlin

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The cameos in the Department of Antiquities at the State Museums in Berlin originate in the Kunstkammer of the Brandenburg Electors. The largely unpublished stock of 875 ancient, baroque and classicistic cameos mirror its changeful history of acquisition, loss and …

Mit Wissen geschmückt?

Zur bildlichen Rezeption griechischer Dichter und Denker in der römischen Lebenswelt

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The relations between Greek and Roman culture constituted a continuous exchange since the Roman expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean area in the second century BC. One aspect of this phenomenon is the reception of Greek education and its visual presence …

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

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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 an explicit historical orientation. In Germany this desideratum was substantiated and gained currency …

Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

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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 2008. For the first time, the papers focus on the …

Ehrenstatuen in der Spätantike

Chlamydati und Togati

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The book investigates the iconography and chronology of the late antique toga statue and the late antique Chlamys statue. Both types of honorific statuary can only be observed from the Theodosian period (late-4th century) onwards. The phenomenon will be explained …

The Life of the Buddha

Buddhist and Saiva Iconography and Visual Narratives in Artists’ Sketchbooks from Nepal

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This book describes, analyses and reproduce line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. These are:
1. Manuscript M.82.169.2, preserved in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (circa late 19th century)
2. Manuscript 82.242-1-24, preserved in …

Egypt 1350 BC to AD 1800

Art Historical and Archeological Studies for Gawdat Gabra

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This tribute by a baker’s dozen of women to the esteemed Coptologist Gawdat Gabra comprises articles dealing with subjects reflecting his scholarly interests in the art and archaeology of Egypt which span more than three millennia. Following on Martin Krause’s …

Rechtsidee und Bild

Zur Funktion und Ikonografie der Bilder in Rechtsbüchern vom 9. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert

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This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of illustrations in German legal manuscripts dating from the earliest such works (9th century) to printed books of the 16th century. A text-image analysis has systematically demonstrated the function and meaning of exemplary …

Das Buch und die vier Ecken der Welt

Von der Hülle der Thorarolle zum Deckel des Evangeliencodex

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Starting with a detailed iconographic analysis of the four angles (gammadia) placed in the four corners of the book covers gifted by the Lombard queen Theodelinda to the basilica San Giovanni in Monza (ca. 600 a. D.) the study tries …

»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 …

Die koptischen Textilien im »museum kunst palast« Düsseldorf

Teil 2: Figürliche und ornamentale Purpur- und Buntwirkereien

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The catalogue refers to the publication of the first part of the textile collection of the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf, prepared by Karl-Heinz Brune. Presenting 276 catalogue numbers it completes in the main the publication of those textiles stored …

The Apse, the Image and the Icon

An Historical Perspective of the Apse as a Space for Images

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This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperial times, nourished the invention of the Christian apse image: on the one hand …

Persistenz und Rezeption

Weiterverwendung, Wiederverwendung und Neuinterpretation antiker Werke im Mittelalter

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The present volume is based on a colloquium held by two research centres of the Philosophical Faculty of Cologne University. i.e. the “Centre for Mediterranean Cultures (Zakmira)” and the “Centre for Medieval Studies”. The contributions by various authors from the …