” Unframing” Byzantine ivories: painterliness, reliefs, and the place of Byzantine art in early twentieth-century German scholarship

This paper scrutinises Adolf Goldschmidt and Kurt Weitzmann’s publication on Byzantine ivories to reveal its entanglement with contemporaneous art theories and art historical discourses. It identifies the bedrock of the authors’ observations in Heinrich Wölfflin’s stylistic dialectic and in the crit...

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Main Author: Elisa Galardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/galardi.pdf