History of Art

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam

The 10th volume of the Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie offers an overview of the extent and complexity of funerary culture in Islamic contexts as attested by visual...

Spätklassische und frühhellenistische Gefäßkeramik aus Priene

Formuntersuchung, Kontext und soziokulturelle Interpretation

Based on a series of late classical and early Hellenistic find contexts from the urban area of ​​Priene, the provenance as well as cultural-historical issues regarding the pottery...

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

The Spoliated Past: Heritage, Antiquarianism, and Byzantine Material Culture Across Time and Space

The articles in this volume seek to shed new light on frequently overlooked archaisms and acts of spoliation. This book is about ideas, style, and material objects, their reuse...

Wiesbaden eine Kapitale der Kalligrafie

Friedrich Poppl, Werner Schneider, Gottfried Pott

This book presents the life's work of Friedrich Poppl, Werner Schneider and Gottfried Pott, the three Wiesbaden lettering artists whose exhibitions and workshops were recognised...

Das Kirchengestühl im Wandel der Zeit

Vom Sitzen in der Kirche

For Western churches, the pews are a constitutive component. Nevertheless, it has so far received little attention in its entirety and its importance. Here, for the first time, an...

Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Age demonstrates how the writings of the first-century Judaean historian influenced the genesis, nature and...

Paket Reichenauer Buchmalerei 850-1070 und Reichenauer Buchmalerei 825-1070. Supplement

The illuminated splendid manuscripts produced on the monastery island of Reichenau are among the most important of the early Middle Ages. Many of them were not intended for the...

Der gesprengte Kreis

Max Beckmanns Schüler zwischen Realismus und Abstraktion

Much like Max Beckmann, his master students faced defamation, marginalization, and persecution at the hands of the Nazis. A significant portion of their work was lost or destroyed...

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 9. Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology

The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded...

The Mosaics of Roger II in Sicily

Visualizing Sacred Authority

The ideas for this book emerged in direct eye contact with the mosaics on the scaffolds of the Cappella Palatina and the Martorana in Palermo and the Cathedral of Cefalù. With...

Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity

A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints

Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity is a journey of discovery of the rich religious landscape of Cilicia in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, with its contrasting and...

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 8

Volume 8 of the Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, edited by Markus Ritter and Nourane Ben Azzouna, with Sabiha Göloğlu, presents fresh research from the Ernst...

Egon Altdorf 1922–2008

Die Kunst der inneren Erneuerung: Skulptur, Graphik, Glasfenster, Lyrik

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Der hundertste Geburtstag von Egon Altdorf hat seinen Sohn veranlasst das Gesamtwerk seines Vaters von einem...

Cuatrovitas (Bollullos de la Mitación, Prov. of Seville, Spain)

New investigations into the Almohad mosque and abandoned village

The publication presents an investigation into rural settlement archeology in the hinterland of Almohad Seville. Many available methods from different disciplines were used for...

Die illuminierten Handschriften französischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Vom 15. Jahrhundert bis um 1540 plus flämische und niederländische Handschriften

This volume concludes the comprehensive description of all French manuscripts in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich that are decorated with book decoration, whereby the...

Prudentius’ Contra Symmachum, Vergil und Rom

Ein historisch-philologischer Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Christen und Heiden am Ende des 4. Jh. n. Chr.

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Prudentius, der größte christliche Dichter der römischen Spätantike, veröffentlichte ca. 402 n. Chr. seine Libri...

The Creation of the Illustrated Octateuch

The illustrated Octateuch is among the most complex creations of the Middle Byzantine period. The Septuagint text of the first eight books of the Old Testament contains hundreds...

Purpur in Byzanz

Privileg und Würdeformel

As a supplement to the studies mentioned above and in response to the persistent desideratum of the few pictorial sources that have been analysed, this work focuses on the...

Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq

This book offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic...

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte 8-2021

Imaginum orbis. Bilderwelten zwischen Spätantike und Byzanz. Festschrift anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Johannes G. Deckers

This book is a commemorative publication on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Deckers, former professor of Byzantine art history at the...