Late antique and medieval art of the Mediterranean world

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List of Contributors. List of Illustrations. Series Editor's Preface. Editor's Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments to Sources. Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean. Part I: Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art. 1. The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style: Jas Elsner. 2. Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts: Annabel Jane Wharton. 3. Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia: Anna Gonosova. 4. Dionysiac Motifs: Richard Ettinghausen. Part II: Continuities: Tradition and Formation of Cultural Identities. 5. The Good Life: Henry Maguire. 6. Hellenism and Islam: G. W. Bowersock. 7. The Draped Universe of Islam: Lisa Golombek. Part III: Image and Word: Early Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art. 8. The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration: John Lowden. 9 Sacred Image, Sacred Power: Gary Vikan. 10. The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: Oleg Grabar. 11. The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam: Erica. Cruikshank Dodd. 12. Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine: G. R. D. King. Part IV: Local Syncretistic Traditions: Jews, Muslims, and Christians. 13. Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era: Rachel Milstein. 14. An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Robert S. Nelson. Part V: Luxury Arts and the Representation of the Court. 15. The Cup of San Marco and the Classical in Byzantium: Ioli Kalavrezou. 16. Images of the Court: Henry Maguire. 17. But Is It Art?: Robin Cormack. Part VI: Expanding Boundaries: Spain, Sicily, Venice, and Beyond. 18. Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century: Eva R. Hoffman. 19. Islam, Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Art: Jerrilyn D. Dodds. 20. The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: William Tronzo. 21. Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Architectural Influence: Deborah Howard. Index

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