INTRODUCTION

Nathan S. Dennis & Ravinder S. Binning – New Paradigms for an Art History of Medieval Northern Africa

ARTICLES

Henry Maguire — Two Textiles with Interlace Designs from Byzantine Egypt and Their Interpretation in the Light of Floor Mosaics / Eunice Dauterman Maguire — Ananeosis at Qasr el Lebia. Introducing Renewal after Justinian’s North African Victory / Ravinder S. Binning — „Where the World Did Not Walk“. The Desert as Sacred Space on the Klimax Painting at Sinai / Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska — Mary’s Open Palm in the Iconography of the Virgin in Medieval Nubia / Arielle Winnik — Dress and Identity in Christian Nubia / Michelle Al-Ferzly — Ifrīqiyan Ceramics. Connectivity and Interaction Across Medieval Africa / Holley Ledbetter — Aestheticizing Enslavement. Representations of Jawārī in Fatimid Visual Culture / Marcia Kupfer — Israelite Identity and Anti-Judaism in Late Antique and Medieval Ethiopia / Jutta Sperling — Die Stillende Jungfrau in der äntiopischen Buchmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts. Bemerkungen zu Stil, Medium, Gegenwärtigkeit und (Un)Mittelbarkeit

CHRONICLES & DEBATES

Ravinder S. Binning & Nathan S. Dennis – Africa & Byzantium. An Interview With Dr. Andrea Myers Achi

INTRODUCTION

Ilaria Molteni & Valeria Russo — Framing Venetian Past Narratives. An Epistemological Introduction

ARTICLES

Francesca Gambino — About the Time Charlemagne Invaded the Laguna and Venice Returned Frankish Fire with Bread / Niccolò Gensini — “Bons Mariniers” Between History and Prophecy. Venice, Venetians, and the Mediterranean Sea in the Prophecies de Merlin / Giuseppina Brunetti — Memory between Tradition and Modernity. Odolric’s Historicism and Bégon’s Promotion of Image in Romanesque Conques / Kirk Ambrose — Morte a Vwenezia. Per la morte di Dante: l’invenzione e i documenti / Ruben Campini, Ivan Foletti, & Annalisa Moraschi — Clash of Titans. Venturi, Kondakov, and the Staging of Late Medieval Venetian Painting in the History of Art History

INTRODUCTION

Ivan Foletti, Cynthia Hahn, Kris N. Racaniello, Cécile Voyer & Adrien Palladino — Contextualizing Conques

ARTICLES

Adrien Palladino — Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France / Martin F. Lešák — The “Glorious Traveler”. St Foy’s Triumphal March from Rodez to Conques or the Liturgical Afterlife of Two Medieval Reliquaries / Lei Huang — Memory between Tradition and Modernity. Odolric’s Historicism and Bégon’s Promotion of Image in Romanesque Conques / Kirk Ambrose — The Counterfeit and the Authentic in the Conques Tympanum / Kris N. Racaniello — The “Iron Man”. Imagining Muslims and Vanishing Objects in the Shrine of Sainte Foy at Conques / Sabina Rosenbergová — Digital Heritage Mapping of Medieval Routes: Retracing Pilgrimage to Conques through the Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis / Michele Luigi Vescovi, with Jasmin Richardson & Tomas Shannon — Mapping Monasticism. A Digital Approach to the Network of Conques / Zuzana Frantová — The Throne of Wisdom of Beaulieu. The Silver Embodiment of the Triumphant Church

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Manuela Studer-Karlen — Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

Michele Bacci & Ivan Foletti – Svaneti and the Rhetoric of Distance

ARTICLES

Irine Elizbarashvili & Irene Giviashvili — Architecture of the Upper Svaneti / Salome Meladze — Painted Chancel Screens in Upper Svaneti. The Evidence of Early Monuments / Nina Chichinadze — The Interactions of Images in Sacred Space. A Case Study: The Church of St Barbara in Khe, Upper Svaneti / Marine Kenia —The Image of the Virgin in the Medieval Painting of Svaneti / Ekaterine Gedevanishvili — Iprari Murals. Reading of the Scene of the Apparition of the Angel to Joshua / Manuela Studer-Karlen — Image and Liturgy. The Church of the Archangels in Tanghili / Antony Eastmond — Icons, Saints, and Society in Svaneti / Nana Burchuladze — Icons from Svaneti in the Context of Byzantine Paintings / Nutsa Batiashvili & Nikoloz Aleksidze — Symbolic Treasure, Care, and Materiality in Upper Svaneti

INTRODUCTION

Ivan Foletti & Adrien Palladino — Late Antiquity and Armenia. From Marginalized Region to Creative Force

ARTICLES

Patrick Donabédian – Culmination of a Late Antique Legacy? The Golden Age of Armenian Architecture in the Seventh Century / Nazénie Garibian — The First Armenian Christian Sanctuaries and Shrines. Reconsidering the Received Tradition / Lilit Mikayelyan — Greco-Roman Ornamental Motifs in Armenia and Iran. Commonality and Sustainability of Tradition (5th–11th Centuries) / Zaruhi Hakobyan — The Image of St Christopher Cynocephalus in Early Medieval Sculpture of Armenia / Adrien Palladino — From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye. Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894–1929) / Annalisa Moraschi — A Mutual Presentation. Precocious Interests for Medieval Armenia in Nineteenth-Century Italy / Beatrice Spampinato — A Theoretical Topography of Architecture. On the Problematic Connections between Rome, Byzantium, and Armenia in Italian Historiography (1914–1945) / Zaruhi Hakobyan — The Image of St Christopher Cynocephalus in Early Medieval Sculpture of Armenia / Ruben Campini — Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus / Ivan Foletti & Pavel Rakitin — Re-Inventing Late Antique and Early Medieval Armenia in World War II Soviet Union

AFTERWORD

Christina Maranci – Late Antique Armenia. Past, Present, and Future

INTRODUCTION

Sarah K. Kozlowski & Kristen Streahle – Navigating between Port Cities. Past and Present

ARTICLES

Elizabeth Kassler-Taub — The Urban Waterscape of Early Modern Palermo / Ali Asgar Hussamuddin Alibhai — A Tale of Two Port Cities. Al-Mahdiyya, Palermo, and the Timber Trade of the Medieval Mediterranean / Teresa Colletta — Arsenali marittimi e città portuali del Mediterraneo medievale. Gli arsenali di Napoli, metropoli portuale del Trecento / Renard Gluzman — To See Venice in a Grain of Sand. An Experiment in Writing a Microhistory of Waterway Erosion Instigated by a Shipwreck, 1607–1622 / Aristea S. Gratsea — The Bay of Fraschia. Characteristics and Function in the Maritime and Shipping Activities of Venetian Crete (15th–16th Centuries) / Ana Marinković & Petar Strunje — Between Plague and Trade. Topography and Typology of the Maritime Lazzarettos in Dubrovnik / Joseph C. Williams — The Mobility of Builders in Medieval Port Cities. The Foreign Masters of Dubrovnik Cathedral / Joseph M. Silva — Securing the Mediterranean. Cosimo i de’ Medici and Portoferraio / Karen Rose Mathews — Between Two Rivers and the Sea. Pisa’s Identity as a Port City in the Middle Ages

INTRODUCTION

Ivan Foletti, Marie Okáčová & Adrien Palladino — A Radical Turn? “Late Antique” Anxiety, Rupture, and Creative Continuity

ARTICLES

Ivan Foletti & Marie Okáčová – An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary, Visual, and Material Cultures/ Jana Mikulová — The Variability of Late Latin Authors’ Means for Marking Direct Discourse / Chiara Croci — “Abbreviated” Depictions? Questions on the Earliest Christian Images / Alberto Virdis — Fragmentation as a Visual Principle. From Cloisonné to Early Stained Glass / Katharina Meinecke — Ornamental Surfaces. A “Global Trend” in Late Antique Afro-Eurasia /

CHRONICLE & DEBATES

Marco Aimone – Two Byzantine Capitals “with Pine Cones at Their Corners” and Their Monograms. Technical, Stylistic, and Historical Observations / Renate Johanna Pillinger – Wunder Jesu auf ausgewählten (römischen) Zwischengoldgläsern

INTRODUCTION

Julian Gardner & Serena Romano – Italy and Beyond

ARTICLES

Jacek Wiewiorowski — The Insigne of the Proconsul of Africa. Maritime Shipping Depictions in the Notitia Dignitatum / Chiara Croci — Pavia picta. Appunti sulla cultura figurativa longobarda a partire dal San Michele / Manuela Gianandrea — Novità e riflessioni su due dipinti murali dell’alto Medioevo romano. L’affresco con sant’Agata e l’inedita pittura con busto di santa / Mzia Janjalia — Between Jerusalem and Constantinople. Revisiting the Eleventh Century: Georgian Religious Art / Maria Harvey — From Provence to Calabria. Filippo Sangineto and Simone Martini’s St Ladislas / Martin F. Lešák — Transforming a Desert, Claiming the Domain. The Early Medieval Landscape of Conques / Stefania Gerevini — Dynamic Splendor. The metalwork altarpieces of medieval Venetia

REVIEWS

Serena Romano — Journeys of the Soul. Multiple Topographies in the Camposanto of Pisa, Michele Bacci, David Ganz, Rahel Meier eds, Pisa: Edizioni della Normale 2020 / Frédéric Elsig — Adrian Bremenkamp, Ars nova translata. Altniederländische Malerei in Neapel und der Krone Aragon, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 2021

INTRODUCTION

Tanja Michalsky, Daniela Rywiková & Elisabetta Scirocco — Royal Nunneries at the Center of Medieval Europe. Art, Architecture, Aesthetics (13th–14th Centuries)

ARTICLES

Jakub Adamski & Piotr Pajor – The Architecture of Poor Clares‘ Nunnery in Stary Sącz. Early Fourteenth-Century Artistic Relations between Lesser Poland and Upper Rhineland / Susan Marti — Networking for Eternal Salvation? Agnes of Habsburg, Queen of Hungary and Co-Founder of Königsfelden / Michaela Zöschg — Beyond Naples. Fourteenth-Century Royal Widows and their Clarissan Foundations in a Trans-Regional Perspective / Giulia Rossi Vairo — Seeing Double in Odivelas. Nuns and Monks at the Monastery of St Dinis, a Royal Pantheon on Late Medieval Portugal / Angelica Federici — Art, Architecture, and Aesthetics in the Baronial Convents of Medieval Latium / Agnieszka Patała — The Convent of Poor Clares in Breslau and its Medieval Furnishings / Eszter Konrád — Helisabet filia Stephani regis Ungarorum illustris. Image of a Saintly Nun of the Arpad Dynasty as Reflected in Hagiographic Sources

AFTERWORD

Klára Benešovská – Royal Nunneries in Czech Lands: Their Specificity and Research Perspectives

INTRODUCTION

Adrien Palladino Dynamics of Medieval Landscape. Measure, Enviroment, Conversion

ARTICLES

Michele Bacci — The New Zion of Ot’kht’a / Manuela Studer-Karlen — The Pictorial Compositions on the Cross Stelae in Georgia (Fifth–Ninth Centuries) / Alberto Virdis — Landscapes of the Past. Interactions with Prehistoric Monuments and Early Medieval Conversion Practices Between Sardinia and the British Isles / Fabio Mari — Paesaggio sacro e cultura visiva. Le pitture della chiesa inferiore del Sacro Speco di Subiaco / Luca Capriotti — Note sul paesaggio medievale. Cicli scultorei dei mesi nella Toscana del XII e XIII secolo / Alessandra Panicco — The Medieval Origins of the Carthusian Landscape in Piedmont (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries) / Martin F. Lešák — Transforming a Desert, Claiming the Domain. The Early Medieval Landscape of Conques / Ivan Foletti — Spaces for Miracles. Constructing Sacred Space through the Body, from Conques to the Mediterranean, and Beyond

INTRODUCTION

Klára Doležalová, Ivan Foletti, Katarína Kravčíková & Pavla Tichá – Means of Christian Conversion in Late Antiquity

ARTICLES

BODY-CHANGING TOUCH

Barbara Bruderer Eichberg – Activation of the Invisible. A prolegomenon to the Evolution of the Consecration of Baptismal Water in the Latin West as a Performative and Sensorial Act. The Roman Rite (3rd–9th century) / Pavla Tichá & Markéta Kulhánková – Vatican Hill in the Time of Conversion. The Phrygianum Neighboring Old Saint Peter’s / Robin M. Jensen – Conversion to Jesus as a Healer God. Visual and Textual Evidence

BODY-AFFECTING OBJECTS

Gajane Achverdjanová & Ivan Foletti – Purifying Body and Soul. Late Antique Combs, Their Use and Visual Culture / Zuzana Frantová – Luxury for All (?). Ivory Diptychs and Their Use in the Baptismal Liturgy / Juliette J. Day – Materiality and the Sensation of Sin in Late Antique Pre-Baptismal Rituals. The Short-Lived “Rite of the Cilicium”

COMMEMORATING DECEASED BODIES

Megan Bunce – Shrines, Special Burials, and the Christianization of Britain / Alžběta Filipová & Adrien Palladino – Converting Minds, Eyes, and Bodies? The Early Cult of Relics Between Rhetoric and Material Practices in Northern Italy and Gallia

EDITORIAL

Adrien Palladino & Elisabetta Scirocco The “Middle Ages”’ Interconnectedness

ARTICLES

Lenka Vrlíková – Between Alexandria and Rome? Reflections on Artistic Circulation and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ethiopian Painting in the Fifteenth Century / Sabine Sommerer – Substitut des Königs. Mittelalterliche Throne mit Königsbildern als repräsentative Agenten / Sean V. Leatherbury – Decorated Walls, Description, and Cultural Memory. Between Byzantium, Persia, and Early Islam / Alberto Virdis – Color in Suger’s Saint-Denis: Matter and Light / Mario Marcenaro – Il mosaico del battistero “monumentale” di Albenga e i primi Concili / Alexandre Varela – Des peintures murales syriaques inédites. L’église Mor-Stephanos de Kfarbe dans le T.ūr ʿAbdīn (Sud-est de la Turquie) / Maria Aimé Villano – Liturgical Furniture in the Basilica of San Marco. The Ciboria in the Main Chapel and in the Chapels of the Nicopeia and Sacramento / Antonio De Caro – (Re-)Producing Conversion from Rome to Beijing. Stories Related to the Replicas of the Salus Populi Romani in the Late Sixteenth Century contents

CHRONICLES & DEBATES

Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino, Vincent Debiais, Éric Sparhubert, Cécile Voyer – “Romanesque” Conques as a Neo-Caroligian Project / Adrien Palladino – Dissipating Strzygowski’s Shadow. Weitzmann on Armenian Book Illumination

REVIEWS

Adrien Palladino – Marco Aimone, The Wyvern Collection: Byzantine and Sasanian Silver, Enamels and Works of Art, with contributions by Erica Cruickshank Dodd, Rika Gyselen, Peter Northoven, and Jack Ogden, London / New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020 / Martin Schwarz – The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography, Pamela A. Patton, Henry D. Schilb eds, University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2021 / Elisabetta Scirocco – Vinni Lucherini, La Cronaca angioina dei re d’Ungheria. Uno specchio eroico e fiabesco della sovranità, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021 / Antonino Tranchina – Roland Betancourt, Byzantine Intersectionality. Sexuality, Gender & Race in the Middle Ages, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020 / Alberto Virdis – L’Image miraculeuse dans le christianisme occidental (Moyen Âge – Temps modernes), Nicolas Balzamo, Estelle Leutrat eds, Tours: Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2020

INTRODUCTION

Ivana Jevtić & Ingela Nilsson Towards an Empathetic Approach to Material and Literary Spolia

ARTICLES

Ingela Nilsson – Imitation as Spoliation, Reception as Translation. The Art of Transforming Things in Byzantium / Karen Rose Mathews — Speaking Antiquity. Ancient Spolia as a Visual Koine in the Medieval Mediterranean (12th to 15th Century) / C. Ceyhun Arslan — Spolia and Textual Reincarnations. A Reassessment of the Hagia Sophia’s History / Armin F. Bergmeier — Antiquarian Displays of Spolia and Roman Identity. San Marco, Merbaka, and the Seljuk Caravanserais / Margaret Mullett — Spoiling the Hellenes: Intertextuality, Appropriation, and Embedment. The Case of the Christos Paschon / Baukje van den Berg — Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries. Translating Homer and Spoliating Ancient Traditions / Ivana Jevtić — Reuse and Remodeling in the Late Byzantine World. The Church of Bogorodica Ljeviška in Prizren / Suzan Yalman — Translating Spolia. A Recent Discover of Fragments from the Walls of Seljuk Konya and Their Afterlives / Emelie Hallenberg — Translating and Spoliating the Byzantines. The Receptions and Remodelings of a Komnenian Novel in Early Modern France

AFTERWORD

Olof Heilo – Postscript: The Meaning of Ruins

INTRODUCTION

Manuela Studer-Karlen Georgia as a Bridge Between Cultures. Dynamics of Artistic Exchange

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PROLOQUE

Ivan Foletti – Belting Before Belting. From Moscow, to Constantinople, and to Georgia Hans Belting – The Painter Manuel Eugenikos from Constantinople, in Georgia

ARTICLES

Ekaterine Gedevanishvili – The Khakhuli Dome Decoration. Eschatological and Historical Contexts / Irene Giviashvili – Liturgy and Architecture. Constantinopolitan Rite and Changes in the Architectural Planning of Georgian Churches / Natalia Chitishvili – Altars in Medieval Georgian Churches. Preliminary Notes on Their Arrangement, Decoration, and the Rite of Consecration / Thomas Kaffenberger – Liminal Spaces of Memory, Devotion and Feasting? Porch-Chapels in Eleventh-Century Georgia / Manuela Studer-Karlen – The Monastery of the Transfiguration in Zarzma. At the Intersection of Biblical Narration and Liturgical Relevance / Irma Mamasakhlisi – The Last Judgment in Medieval Georgian Art (Tenth–Thirteenth Centuries)

INTRODUCTION

Philippe Cordez & Ivan Foletti – A Convivium with Herbert L. Kessler. Sharing Objects, Sensory Experiences, and Medieval Art History

ARTICLES

Vincent Debiais & Elina Gertsman – Au-delà des sens, l’abstraction / Nathan Dennis – Optical Games and Spiritual Frames. A Reassessment of Imitation-Marble Mosaics in Late Antique North Africa / Francesca Dell’Acqua – Beyond Human Grasp. The Funeral of the Virgin on the “Wirksworth Stone” (Derbyshire) / Philippe Cordez – Golgotha im   Kopf. Karl der Kahle und die karolingischen Elfenbeinkämme / Iva Adámková – The Sense of Sight in the Prologues of Theophilus Presbyter’s De diversis artibus / Marc Sureda i Jubany – Faithful Crosses. On the Survival of an Early Type of Goldsmith’s Cross in Late Medieval Catalonia / Panayota Volti – Saints émaciés, reliques et images au Moyen Âge tardif. Dynamiques visuelles et perspective du salut / Bissera V. Pentcheva – Divine Anamorphosis. The Phenomenality of Gold and Chant in a Fourteenth-Century Antiphonary from Santa Maria sopra Porta

ABOUT HERBERT L. KESSLER

Anne-Orange Poilpré – L’Antiquité et les origines de la narrativité chrétienne en images dans l’œuvre d’Herbert L. Kessler. Un parcours intellectuel / Adrien Palladino – Herbert L. Kessler. A Visionary Interpreter of Medieval Visual Culture

INTRODUCTION

Chiara Bordino & Chiara Croci Rome on the Borders. Visual Cultures During the Carolingian Transition

ARTICLES

Ivan Foletti & Sabina Rosenbergová – Rome between Lights and Shadows. Reconsidering “Renaissances” and “Decadence” in Early Medieval Rome / Andrea Antonio Verardi – Narrare il passaggio, guidare la transizione. Strategie di comunicazione papale nella prima metà del secolo viii / Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi – The Representation of Sacred Royalty in the codices of Charles the Bald and the Furtherance of Romanness in the Late Carolingian Age / Philipp Winterhager – A Pope, a King, and Three Apses. Architecture and Prestige in Eighth-Century Rome and Beyond / Chiara Croci – Una questione romana? La (ri)nascita della pittura narrativa martiriale nell’alto Medioevo: altri spunti da Santa Prassede / Dirk Krausmüller – In Defense of Tall Tales. Methodius of Constantinople’s Literary Activity during His Stay in Rome / Chiara Bordino – Images of Saints and Their Relics. Debates on Representation and Worship in the Ninth Century between Constantinople, Rome, and the Carolingians / Maria Lidova – Maria Regina. Transformations of an Early Byzantine Image in Late Eighth-Century Rome / Martin F. Lešák – Stational Liturgy and Local History. Leo iii’s Apse Mosaic at Santa Susanna / Antonella Ballardini & Maurizio Caperna – A Santa Prassede, nella Gerusalemme nuova. L’assetto architettonico dello spazio absidale, l’arredo e la disposizione liturgica / Giulia Bordi & Carles Mancho – Con i santi nella Gerusalemme nuova. Il presbiterio di Santa Prassede tra pittura e mosaici

INTRODUCTION

Ivan Foletti After Kondakov. The Heritage of Russian Emigration in the Czech Lands

ARTICLES

Ekaterina Shashlova – Russian Philosophers in France in the Interwar Period. A Review of the Studies of Emigrant Philosophers / Juliette Milbach – Zinaida Serebrjakova in Paris. Iconographic Analysis of a Russian in Exile / Karolina Foletti – Presenting Russia to the West. Helene Iswolsky, Russian Catholic Émigré Intellectual / Cécile Pichon-Bonin – The Russian Illustrators of the Père Castor. Russian Mediators in France of the Concept of Construction in Art and Pedagogy in the 1930s / Jordan Ljuckanov – The Russian Émigré Community in Interwar Bulgaria. Attempt at a Typology of Transformations, with Focus on the “Aestheticization” of Newspaper / Adrien Palladino – Transforming Medieval Art from Saint Petersburg to Paris. André Grabar’s Life and Scholarship between 1917 and 1945

EDITORIAL

Ivan Foletti & Zuzana Frantová – Exchanges and Interactions in a Time of Pandemic

ARTICLES

Gil Fishhof – The Meanings of Byzantium. The Church of Abu-Ghosh (Emmaus) and the Meanings of Byzantine Pictorial Language in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Armin F. Bergmeier – Die Ausmalungen der Wiener Virgilkapelle. Die visuelle Kultur in Byzanz, im Kaukasus, in Syrien und Nordmesopotamien / Nikolaos Vryzidis – Between Three Worlds. The “Veneto-Saracenic” Candleholder of Docheiariou Monastery / Mzia Janjalia – Cross-Cultural Features in Medieval Art. The Case of the Early Fourteenth-Century Wall Paintings at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem / Matko Matija Marušić – Painted Crosses and the Trajectories of Medieval Image Captions. Evidence from Thirteenth-Century Zadar and Beyond / Ilaria Molteni & Irene Quadri – Trame di storia. Il mosaico di Otranto, le cronache universali e l’immagine della regalità / Vera-Simone Schulz – Artistic Exchanges Across Afro-Eurasia. A Global Taste for Metal Artifacts from Mamluk Syria and Egypt in Italy, West Africa, and China in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

CHRONICLE & DEBATES

Roundtable. Medieval Art Today, Why? Ivan Foletti & Adrien Palladino eds

REVIEWS

Michele Bacci – Mat Immerzeel, The Narrow Way to Heaven. Identity and Identities in the Art of Middle Eastern Christianity, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 259, Leuven: Peeters 2017 / Ivan Foletti – Francesca Dell’Acqua, Iconophilia. Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c. 680–880, London / New York: Routledge 2020 / Adrien Palladino – Armin F. Bergmeier, Visionserwartung. Visualisierung und Präsenzerfahrung des Göttlichen in der Spätantike, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2017

Xenia Muratova – unvergesslich. Obituary by Peter Cornelius Claussen

INTRODUCTION

Herbert L. Kessler & Serena Romano – A Hub of Art. In, Out, and Around Venice, 1177–1499

ARTICLES

Simone Piazza – Mosaici d’oro nelle chiese di Venezia (ix–xiv secolo). Luci sull’ingente patrimonio perduto / Ludovico V. Geymonat & Lorenzo Lazzarini – A Nativity Cycle for the Choir Screen of San Marco, Venice / Anne Dunlop – Mongol Eurasia in the Trecento Veneto / Andrea Missagia – Oreficerie veneziane a smalto traslucido (secoli xiv–xv). Immissioni, importazioni e produzioni locali, novità, continuità e abbandoni / Michele Bacci – Greek Madonnas and Venetian Fashion

INTRODUCTION

Klára Doležalová & Ivan Foletti – Liminality and Medieval Art. From Space to Rituals and to the Imagination

ARTICLES

Ivan Foletti & Katarína Kravčíková – Closed Doors as Bearers and Constructors of Images. Santa Sabina in Rome and Notre Dame du Puy / Sible De Blaauw & Klára Doležalová – Constructing Liminal Space? Curtains in Late Antique and Early Medieval Churches / Vlad Bedros & Elisabetta Scirocco – Liturgical Screens, East and West. Liminality and Spiritual Experience / Chiara Croci – The Depiction of the Acta Martyrum During the Early Middle Ages. Hints from a Liminal Space, the Transept of Santa Prassede in Rome (817–824) / Jan Klípa & Eliška Poláčková – Tabulae cum portis, vela, cortinae and sudaria. Remarks on the Liminal Zones in the Liturgical and Para-Liturgical Contexts in the Late Middle Ages / John Mitchell & Nicholas Pickwoad – “Blessed Are the Eyes Which See Divine Spirit Through the Letter’s Veil.” The Book as Object and Idea

EDITORIAL

Ivan Foletti & Elisabetta Scirocco – Environment, Democracy, and Convivium

ARTICLES

Andrew Griebeler – Aeizōon to amaranton. Intercultural Collaboration in a Late Byzantine Nature Study / Ute Dercks – “… dove l’epidemia fotografica si è diffusa”. Architectural Photographs in Nineteenth-Century Sicily / Giampaolo Distefano – Una mitra angioina perduta poi ritrovata. Il problema dello smalto de plique tra Parigi e Napoli nel Trecento / Chiara Bordino – The Transfiguration and the Eikon of Christ. From Eusebius’ Letter to Constantina to the Iconoclast Era / Sarah K. Kozlowski – Trecento Panel Painting Between the Courts of Naples and Hungary. A Hypothesis for Simone Martini’s Saint Ladislaus and a Painting of Christ on the Cross / Lev Kapitaikin – Human Flight on a Fabulous Superbird. Uplifting Images Between Sicily and Khurasan (part ii.) /

CHRONICLE & DEBATES

Michele Bacci – The Rediscovery of a Byzantine Capital, Reused as a Baptismal Font, in the Nativity Church, Bethlehem / Adrien Palladino – The Wolfgang Born – Kondakov Institute Correspondence. Art History, Freedom, and the Rising Fear in the 1930s

REVIEWS

Chiara Croci – M. Wegener-Rieckesmann, Bischof Gaudiosus, die heilige Restituta und die ecclesia Neapolitana. Zu den Zeugnissen vandalenzeitlicher Exilanten und dem kulturellen nordafrikanischen Einfluss in Neapel sowie zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der örtlichen Bischofskirche zwischen dem 4. und 9. Jahrhundert, Oberhausen: Athena-Verlag 2019 / Adrian S. Hoch – The Art of Medieval Hungary, edited by Xavier Barral i Altet, Pál Lövei, Vinni Lucherini and Imre Takács, Rome: Viella 2018 / Haig Utidjian – Armenia. Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages, edited by Helen C. Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2018 Christina Maranci, The Art of Armenia. An Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press 2018

EDITORIAL

Hand Belting, Ivan Foletti & Martin F. Lešák – The Movement and the Experience od „Iconic Presence“. An Introduction

ARTICLES

SPACE, PLACE AND PRESENCE

Michele Bacci – Site-Worship and the Iconopoietic Power of Kinetic Devotions / Martin F. Lešák – Sacred Architecture and the Voice of Bells in the Medieval Landscape. With the Case Study of Mont-Saint-Michel

IMAGES, OBJECTS AND PRESENCE

Ivan Foletti – Dancing with Sainte Foy. Movement and the Iconic Presence / Adrien Palladino – Captivated by Gaze. Sculpture as Witness at the Lausanne Cathedral’s Porch / Tina Bawden – The Mobile Viewer at the Medieval Church Entrance

PERFORMANCE, BODIES AND PRESENCE

Vladimir Ivanovici – Iconic Presences. Late Roman Consuls as Imperial Images / Johanna Abel – Ritual Drama and Dramatic Ritual in Spanish Sacramental Plays. La Margarita Preciosa (1616) Between Procession and Stage

EDITORIAL

Ivan Foletti & Elisabetta Scirocco – Reflections on Mobility, the Roots and Prospects of European Culture

ARTICLES

Hans Belting – A Venetian Artist at the Ottoman Court. An Encounter of Two Worlds / Mzia Janjalia in collaboration with Marina Bulia – Trend versus Cultural Context in Medieval Art. The Case of the Kirants Paintings / Daniela Rywiková – Virtues and Vices Reformed? Visual Pastoralia in Fourteenth-Century Bohemian Art / Anita Paolicchi – Hoc brachium est beati Iohannis Baptistae. Osservazioni sulla provenienza della reliquia di San Giovanni Battista conservata a Siena / Sarah S. Wilkins – Countenances as Lightning. The Materiality of the Noli me tangere Fresco in Assisi / Rafca Y. Nasr – The Virgin Blachernitissa of Barghoun (Lebanon). Image of the Altar or the Priest Exposing the Host / Chiara Croci – Una cosmografia Cristiana? Le radici astronomiche della cupola del perduto edificio martiriale di San Prisco presso Capua (v sec.)

CHRONICLE & DEBATES

Thomas Kaffenberger – A Newly Discovered Church in Cyprus. Remarks on New Architectural Forms’ Modes of Transmission in Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean / Ivan Foletti – Vivre le pèlerinage (médieval). Une expérience corporelle

REVIEWS

Armin F. Bergmeier – Hagia Sophia. Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium, by Bissera V. Pentcheva, University Park (pa), The Pennsylvania State University Press 2017 / Dorothy F. Glass – E la Parola si fece bellezza (Atti del Convegno internazionale sugli amboni istoriati toscani, 19–28 maggio 2016), edited by Timothy Verdon and Giovanni Serafini, Florence, Mandragora 2017 / Adrian S. Hoch – Images and Words in Exile: Avignon and Italy during the First Half of the 14th Century, edited by Elisa Brilli, Laura Fenelli and Gerhard Wolf, Florence, sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo 2015

EDITORIAL

Elisabetta Scirocco & Gerhard Wolf – The Italian South: Transcultural Perspectives

ARTICLES

Ruggero Longo – The First Norman Cathedral in Palermo. Robert Guiscard’s Church of the Most Holy Mother of God With an Addendum by Jeremy Johns / Eve Borsook – A Solomonic Throne for Salerno Cathedral? / Antonino Tranchina – Revealing the Emir’s God. The Arabic Inscription of the Dome of La Martorana (Palermo) / Dana Katz – From Norman to Hohenstaufen Rule of Sicily. The Representation of Matthew of Ajello in the Liber ad honorem Augusti and the Church of La Magione in Palermo / Francesco Gangemi – Hic situs est sanctus. L’arca di San Basso a Termoli, fra testo e contesto / Roberto Rotondo – Echi bizantini nell’architettura rupestre pugliese. L’esempio della chiesa di Lama d’Antico a Fasano (Brindisi) / Manuela De Giorgi – Interazioni del sacro. Forme e modelli di culto nella pittura bizantina di Puglia / Kristen Streahle – St George and the Trinacrian Rebellion. Art in Sicily During the Later Crusades / Ulrike Ritzerfeld – Santa Caterina a Galatina. Un monumento per la “latinizzazione” della Puglia greco-bizantina o per le ambizioni autonomistiche dei Del Balzo Orsini? / Gianluca del Monaco – Illuminated Bolognese Legal Manuscripts and Angevin Regnum Siciliae. The Advocates Volumen Parvum in Edinburgh (nls, Advocates ms 10.1.4 ([i]) / Renata Novak Klemenčič – Artistic Exchange Between Dubrovnik and Naples in the Time of Alfonso d’Aragona / Maria Vittoria Spissu – Permeabilità e specificità / appropriazioni e identità (1455–1515 ca.). L’affermazione del linguaggio flandro-mediterraneo nel regno catalanoaragonese di Sardegna / Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino – The “Mongrel Style”. One Century of Use and Abuse of Sicilian Syncretism

EDITORIAL

Serena Romano & Elisabetta Scirocco – Mediterranean Dialogues across Time and Space

ARTICLES

Avinoam Shalem – Passages. Meyer Schapiro’s Early Travels and the Uniting Mediterranean Sea / Athanasios Semoglou – La version „théophanienne“ de la Transfiguration. Elenchos d’une hypothèse sur les origines d’un schéma iconographique / Stefano D’Ovidio – Alla ricerca di un Medioevo perduto. La basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore a Napoli (IV-XVII secolo) / Anastasia Moskvina – Liturgy and Movement. The Complex Associated with St Stephen’s Church at Umm er-Rasas, Jordan / Lev Kapitaikin – Human Flight on a Fabulous Superbird. Uplifting Images between Sicily and Khurasan / Serena Romano – Wonderful Rusuti. Nemo propheta in patria / Ilaria Molteni – Lo spazio del foglio. Sulla mise en page dei romanzi cavallereschi di origine italiana (XIII-XIV secolo) / Laura Zamparo – Il frontespizio con angeli in età tardoantica. Alcune considerazioni sulle sue trasformazioni ottoniane

BOOK REVIEWS

Geraldine Leardi – Simona Moretti, Roma Bizantina. Opere d’arte dall’impero di Costantinopoli nelle collezioni romane, Roma: Campisano Editore 2014; Giovanni Gasbarri, Riscoprire Bisanzio. Lo studio dell’arte bizantina a Roma e in Italia tra Ottocento e Novecento, Roma: Viella 2015 / Maria Lidova – Michele Bacci, The Many Faces of Christ. Portraying the Holy in the East and West, 300 to 1300, London: Reaktion Books 2014 / Marco Rossi – Laura Chinellato, Arte longobarda in Friuli: l’ara di Ratchis a Cividale, Udine: Forum 2016 / Gerardo Boto Varela – San Tommaso ad Acquanegra sul Chiese. Storia, architettura e contesto figurativo di una chiesa abbaziale romanica, Fabio Scirea ed., Mantova: sap Società Archeologica s.r.l. 2015 / Michele Tomasi – The Salerno Ivories. Objects, Histories, Contexts, Francesca Dell’Acqua, Anthony Cutler, Herbert L. Kessler, Avinoam Shalem, Gerhard Wolf eds, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag 2016 / Gaetano Curzi – Stefano D’Ovidio, Scultura lignea del Medioevo a Napoli e in Campania, Napoli: Società Napoletana di Storia Patria 2013 / Laura Fenelli – Joanna Cannon, Religious Poverty, Visual Riches. Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, New Haven, ct: Yale University Press 2013; Caroline Bruzelius, Preaching, Building, and Burying. Friars and the Medieval City, New Haven/London: Yale University Press 2014

INTRODUCTION

Ivan Foletti, Erik Thunø – The Artistic Cultures of the Medieval South Caucasus. Historiography, Myths and Objects

ARTICLES

Ivan Foletti – The Russian View of a “Peripheral” Region. Nikodim P. Kondakov and the Southern Caucasus / Francesco Lovino – Southern Caucasus in Perspective. The Scholarly Debate through the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum and Skythika (1927–1938) / Patricia Blessing – Medieval Monuments from Empire to Nation-State: Beyond Armenian and Islamic Architecture in the South Caucasus (1180–1300) / Christina Maranci – The Monument and the World: Zuart’noc’ and the Problem of Origins / Antony Eastmond – Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Enamels and Diplomacy between Byzantium and Georgia / Marina Bulia and Mzia Janjalia – Medieval Art and Modern Approaches: A New Look at the Akhtala Paintings / Sipana Tchakerian – Toward a Detailed Typology: Four-Sided Stelae in Early Christian South Caucasus / Erik Thunø – Cross-Cultural Dressing: the Medieval South Caucasus and Art History / Annegret Plontke-Lüning – Early Christian Churches in Caucasian Albania / Lynn Jones – Relics, Woodworking and the Skins of Reptiles: the Material Culture of Caucasian Albania / Marina Kevkhishvili – Svanetien – das letzte Mittelalter Europas / Michele Bacci – Echoes of Golgotha. On the Iconization of Monumental Crosses in Medieval Svanet’i

EDITORIAL

Ivan Foletti – Open to Change, Faithful to Precepts

CLASSICAL HERITAGE & MEDIEVAL INNOVATION

Illustrated Texts from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Anna Boreczky – Introduction: Classical Heritage & Medieval Innovation

ARTICLES

Herbert L. Kessler – The Christianity of Carolingian Classicism / Martin Büchsel – Formgenese karolingischer Elfenbeine. Strukturen der Antikenrezeption / Ádám Bollók – Rediscovering Antiquities and Reviving the Past. Byzantium during the 9th and 10th Centuries / Anna Boreczky – The Illustrated Life of Apollonius and Tarsia. A “Papyrus-style” Narrative in Ottonian Art / Xavier Barral i Altet – Au sujet des architectures de l’Apollonius pictus. Autour de la transmission de modèles à travers le Haut Moyen Âge / András Németh – Continuous Narration through Scenic Depictions. The Apollonius pictus / Giulia Orofino – La storia nei margini. I disegni dell’Orosio Vat. lat. 3340 tra eredità tardoantica e creazione medievale / Milagros Guardia – Iratusque est Cain vehementer… Cain Being Wroth: a Gap in the Iconographic Transmission in the Pyrenees / Béla Zsolt Szakács – Archaism, Imitation, Provincialism? Notes on the Murals of Kosztolány / Kostoľany pod Tribečom / Massimo Bernabò & Grigory Kessel – A Syriac Four Gospel Book in Diyarbakır

CHRONICLE

Francesco Lovino – Leafing through Seminarium Kondakovianum, i. Studies on Byzantine Illumination

EDITORIAL

Michele Bacci & Ivan Foletti – The World of Convivium : Between Post-modernism and New Discoveries

ARTICLES

Stefano Riccioni – Colores rethorici: réflexions sur la rhétorique de la couleur dans les mosaïques de Rome du XIIe siècle / Michele Bacci – Old Restorations and New Discoveries in the Nativity Church, Bethlehem / Maria Lidova – The Imperial Theotokos: Revealing the Concept of Early Christian Imagery in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome / Federica Volpera – Tra Oriente e Occidente: riflessioni su un dipinto inedito già nella collezione dei Marchesi d’Invrea (Varazze) / Dragoş Gh. Năstăsoiu – Patterns of Devotion and Traces of Art: the Diplomatic Journey of Queen Elizabeth Piast to Italy in 1343–1344 / Glenn Peers – Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and its Exhibition / Geraldine Leardi – Prêt-à-Byzantiner: moda, modi, mondi bizantini

BOOK REVIEWS

EDITORIAL

Ivan Foletti & Herbert L. Kessler – Hans Belting. A Bridge to Many Romes

ARTICLES

Jean-Claude Schmitt – Rome, Trier, Kiev / Tanja Michalsky, Grata pictura and mapa duplex. Paolino Minorita’s Late Medieval Map of Rome as an Epistemological Instrument of a Historiographer / Ivan Foletti, Dio da dio: la maschera di Cristo, Giove Serapide e il mosaico di Santa Pudenziana a Roma / Dieter Blume, Rom im Exil – Die fiktiven Räume des Matteo Giovanetti in Avignon / Simone Piazza, Un unicum fra Oriente e Occidente: l’immagine della Trasfigurazione in San Gabriele ad Airola, Benevento / Francesca Dell’Acqua, Porta coeli: the Annunciation as Threshold of Salvation / Michele Bacci, A Power of Relative Importance: San Marco and the Holy Icons / Shigebumi Tsuji, The Starry Night. Art before the Era of the Icon / Ádám Bollók, Byzantium on the Theiss: of Byzantine Diplomacy, the Emperor’s Image and the Avars / Branislav Cvetković & Cynthia Hahn, Imperial Aspirations: Relics and Reliquaries of the Byzantine Periphery / Jean-Michel Spieser, Le monastère du Pantocrator à Constantinople: le typikon et le monument/ Xavier Barral i Altet, Un programme iconographique occidental pour le pavement médiéval de l’église du Christ Pantocrator de Constantinople / Alessandro Taddei, A Neglected Mosaic in the South Gallery of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Ondřej Jakubec, Roman References in Early Modern Central European Confessional Architecture / Serena Romano, Picasso e il vero volto dell’Arlecchino

ABOUT HANS BELTING

Collected by Alžběta Filipová, Andrien Palladino & Pavla Tichá, Biography and Bibliography of Hans Belting

ARTICLES

Bissera V. Pentcheva – Mirror, Inspiration, and the Making of Art in Byzantium / Alexei Lidov – The Catapetasma of Hagia Sophia and the Phenomenon of Byzantine Installations / Michitaka Suzuki – Icons in Japan Painted by Rin Yamashita: Anonymity and Materiality / Lucy O’Connor – Christ in Majesty on a Late Antique eulogia token in the British Museum / Vincent Debiais – Carolingian Verse Inscriptions and Images: From Aesthetics to Efficiency / Barbara Baert – Pentecost in the Codex Egberti (ca. 980) and the Benedictional of Robert of Jumièges (late tenth century). The Visual Medium and the Senses / Assaf Pinkus and Michal Ozeri – From Body to Icon: The Life of Sts Peter and Paul in the Murals of S. Piero a Grado (Pisa)

BOOK REVIEWS

INTRODUCTION

Ivan Foletti – De Nikodim Kondakov, au Seminarium Kondakovianum et à Convivium / From Nikodim Kondakov at Seminarium Kondakovianum and Convivium

EDITORIAL

Klara Benešovská, Ivan Foletti & Serena Romano – Circulation as a Factor of Cultural Aggregation

Circulation of Holy Places

Alessandro Taddei – A Journey of Men and Names. Constantinople’s Kosmidion and its italian Replicas / Ivan Foletti – Germigny-des-Prés, il Santo Sepolcro e la Gerusalemme Celeste / Klara Benešovská – De la circulation des «　locis sanctis　» – Le Mont Sion à Prague

Circulation of Relics

Alžběta Filipová – Circulation of Blood, Clay, and Ideas: The Distribution of Milanese Relics in the 4th and 5th Centuries / Clario di Fabio – Reliquie e reliquiari dal mare a Genova e in Liguria fra la prima Crociata e il Duecento / Vinni Lucherini – Smembrare il corpo del re e moltiplicare le reliquie del santo: il caso di Luigi IX di Francia / Denise Zaru – De Prague à la Lombardie. Reliques et culte des saints durant la deuxième moitié du XIVe siècle

Circulation of Ideas and Images

Valentine Giesser – De la côte est de l’Adriatique à Rome ou quand l’image accompagne la relique. Réflexions autour de la mosaïque de la chapelle San Venanzio au baptistère du Latran / Kateřina Kubínová – From the Frankish Empire to Prague: Evangeliary Cim 2 in the Library of the Prague Metropolitan Chapter / Xavier Barral i Altet – La mensa en marbre e l’altar maius de la cathédrale romane de Naples au cours des XIe et XIIe siècles / Francesco Lovino – Considerazioni sopra due manoscritti della Biblioteca Marciani di Venezia (Homerus Venetus A e Marc. Gr. 539), alla luce della politica artistica nella Palermo normanna / Ilaria Molteni – Appunti sulla circolazione delle prose arturiane in Italia settentrionale tra Due e Trecento: tradizioni illustrative e livelli di lettura / Manlio Leo Mezzacasa – Circulation in Venetian Medieval goldsmith’s art: three case studies between Venice and the Adriatic / Michele Bacci – The Holy Name of Jesus in Venetian-Ruled Crete / Monika Brenišíková – Millénarisme des ordres mendiants en Nouvelle Espagne du XVIe siècle et ses manifestations dans l’architecture et l’art