1st Edition

Romanesque and the Mediterranean Patterns of Exchange Across the Latin, Greek and Islamic Worlds c.1000-c.1250

By Rosa Bacile Copyright 2015

    Arising from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in Palermo in 2012, this book includes 16 papers that explores points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds between c. 1000 and c. 1250.

    INTRODUCTION

    JAROSLAV FOLDA Twelfth-Century Crusader Art in Bethlehem and Jerusalem: Points of Contact between Europe and the Crusader Kingdom

    MARIAM ROSSER-OWEN The Oliphant: A Call for a Shift of Perspective

    JEREMY JOHNS Muslim Artists and Christian Models in the Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo

    FRANCESCA ANZELMO Dress and Textiles on the Twelfth-Century Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo

    ROSA BACILE The Norman Porphyry Workshop in Palermo c. 1140-83

    MARK JOHNSON The Mausoleum of Bohemund at Canosa and the Architectural Setting of Ruler Tombs in Norman Italy

    ERIC FERNIE The Date, Iconography and Dedication of the Cathedral of Canosa

    LUDOVICO GEYMONAT Preparing for the End: The Great Devotion of 1233 and Painting in the Baptistery at Parma

    BELA SZOLST SZAKACS Hungary, Byzantium, Italy: Architectural Connections in the 11th Century

    JOHN MCNEILL Building Jerusalem in Western France: The Case of St-Sauveur at Charroux

    CLAUDE ANDRAULT-SCHMITT A Western Interpretation of an Oriental Scheme: The Domed Churches of Romanesque Aquitaine

    GERARDO BOTO The Migration of Mediterranean Images: Strange Creatures in Spanish Buildings and Scriptoria between the 9th and 11th Centuries

    ROSE WALKER Sculptors in Medieval Spain following the 1085 Fall of Toledo

    DULCE OCON The Paintings of the Chapter-House of Sigena and the Art of the Crusader Kingdoms

    MANUEL CASTINEIRAS Catalan Panel Painting Around 1200, The Eastern Mediterranean and Byzantium

    JORDI CAMPS Catalonia, Provence and the Holy Land: Late 12th-Century Sculpture in Barcelona

    Biography

    Rosa Bacile

    The book’s sixteen well-illustrated essays are of great use to specialists and provide non-specialists with a flavour of current work on cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. The teaching of Romanesque art and architecture is all but extinct in British universities and is often neglected by researchers. This wonderful series of books raises hopes for its resurrection.

    -James Alexander Cameron, The Berlington Magazine