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L'incoronazione celeste nel mondo Bizantinon : politica, cerimoniale, numismatica e arti figurative /
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This study deals with the iconographic theme of imperial Byzantine 'heavenly coronation', or André Grabar's couronnement symbolique, with particular attention to fine arts and numismatics. This theme, along with the rituals of imperial investiture, represents the concept of divine kingship in figurative terms, a significant ideological premise for Byzantine theocracy.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781905739981 (PDF ebook) :
Catalogue of the Byzantine and early mediaeval antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks collection /
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Volume 3 by K. Weitzmann.
Volume 3 have imprint : Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University. :
volume <1, 3> : illustrations, plates (part color) ; 30 cm. :
Bibliography : volume 1, pages 113-115.
Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity : Images and Narratives /
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"What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes. The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other"--
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004446922
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