The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261-1475)

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53893-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 136, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 214 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 1429 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Rafal Quirini-Poplawski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts scattered around the Black Sea, an area whose cultural history is little known. The artistic creativity of the region emerges as extraordinarily rich and colorful, with a variety of heterogeneous, hybrid and intermingled characteristics.

The book questions the extent to which the descriptor "Genoese" can be applied to the settlements’ artistic production; Quirini-Poplawski demonstrates that, despite entrenched views of these colonies as centres of Italian and Latin culture, it was in fact Greek and Armenian art that was of greater importance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quirini-Poplawski, Rafal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 The Aims of the Book

2 State of Research – Literature Review

3 Sources and Approaches

1 Historical Introduction

1 History of the Genoese Colonies in the Context of the History of the Black Sea Basin in the Late Medieval Period

2 The Legal and Organisational Frameworks of Construction Activity and Crafts in the Colonies. Origin of Builders and Craftsmen

2 The Topography of the Colonies and Secular Buildings

1 The Topography of the Colonies

2 Secular Buildings

3 Sacral Buildings

1 Introduction

2 The Churches of Caffa

3 The Churches of Pera

4 Churches and Other Religious Buildings in Soldaia, Cembalo, Trebizond, Samastri, and Vosporo

4 Bas-Relief Decoration

1 Review of Monuments

2 Analysis

5 Painting and Applied Arts

1 Monumental Painting

2 Panel and Miniature Painting

3 Applied Arts

4 Numismatics and Sphragistics

Conclusion

Catalogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rafal Quirini-Poplawski, Ph.D. (2005), Jagiellonian University, is a medieval art historian at this university. He has published on sacral art in Ukraine, Romanesque sculpture in Poland, and late medieval art in the Black Sea Basin.