Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der Makedonischen Renaissance. - WEITZMANN, K.,
KORTE INHOUD
'The present study seeks to free the Paris Psalter of its splendid isolation and to connect it with a humanistic movement which at the time of the Patriarch Photius and the emperors Leon the Wise and Constantine Porphyrogenitus revived classical learning and led to the copying of texts of ancient authors, among them some with illustrations. this explains the sudden appearance of scientific and mythological illustrations, based on Homer, euripides and other classical writers, in manuscripts of the tenth century. This copying of classical subject matter in a classical style was of great consequence for byzantine art in general and affected Christian art to such an extent that the latter fell under the spell of the classical revival movement and became so thoroughly classicized that the traces of this influence were at no time thoroughly eradicated in spite of some counter movement that stressed a more spiritualized and ascetic style. (...) After a certain stagnation and reaction against the classicizing art of ...
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Köln / Opladen, 1963. 104,(33)p. ills.(B&W photographs and one full colour reproduction). Sewn.Antiquarian
'The present study seeks to free the Paris Psalter of its splendid isolation and to connect it with a humanistic movement which at the time of the Patriarch Photius and the emperors Leon the Wise and Constantine Porphyrogenitus revived classical learning and led to the copying of texts of ancient authors, among them some with illustrations. this explains the sudden appearance of scientific and mythologi...
'The present study seeks to free the Paris Psalter of its splendid isolation and to connect it with a humanistic movement which at the time of the Patriarch Photius and the emperors Leon the Wise and Constantine Porphyrogenitus revived classical learning and led to the copying of texts of ancient authors, among them some with illustrations. this explains the sudden appearance of scientific and mythologi...
