This book explores the nexus of art; personal piety; and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium. Spanning the period from around 1100 to around 1450; it focuses upon the evidence of verse inscriptions; or epigrams; on works of art. Epigrammatic poetry; Professor Drpić argues; constitutes a critical - if largely neglected - source for reconstructing aesthetic and socio-cultural discourses that informed the making; use; and perception of art in the Byzantine world. Bringing together art-historical and literary modes of analysis; the book examines epigrams and other related texts alongside an array of objects; including icons; reliquaries; ecclesiastical textiles; mosaics; and entire church buildings. By attending to such diverse topics as devotional self-fashioning; the aesthetics of adornment; sacred giving; and the erotics of the icon; this study offers a penetrating and highly original account of Byzantine art and its place in Byzantine society and religious life.
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