Article,
Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Imagery in the Middle Ages
The Art Bulletin, 76 (4): 680--694 (1994)
Abstract
The encounter between Byzantium and the medieval West forms the basis for this investigation of the cross-cultural perception of imagery. How did Byzantine viewers perceive Western medieval images? How did Western viewers look at Byzantine images? These questions are examined by considering a passage from a fifteenth-century Byzantine account of the Church Council in Florence, the Latin annotations in the fourteenth-century Bulgarian version of the World Chronicle of Constantine Manasses, and a description of the Anastasis mosaic in the Holy Sepulcher by a twelfth-century Western pilgrim.
