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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia.
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| Note |
This publication includes all essays presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the following programs: Sunday at the Met, March 18, 2012; Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam: A Symposium, March 20, 2012; Floor Mosaics in the Late Antique Mediterranean: A Kallinikeion Colloquium in Byzantine Studies Symposium, May 11, 2012; A Scholars Day Workshop: Collecting Byzantine and Islamic Art, June 4, 2012. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Collecting Christianity on the Nile: J. Pierpont Morgan and The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Lyle Humphrey -- The Gerasa City mosaic: history and treatment at the Yale University Art Gallery / Lisa R. Brody and Carol Snow -- Art and assimilation: the floor mosaics from the Synagogue at Hammam Lif / Edward Bleiberg -- When is a menorah "Jewish"?: on the complexities of a symbol during the Age of Transition / Steven Fine -- Untidy history: reassessing communal boundaries in light of the Cairo Geniza documents / Arnold E. Franklin -- The transmission of images in the Mediterranean / Annie Montgomery Labatt -- The icons of Sinai: continuity at a time of controversy / Hieromonk Justin of Sinai -- Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions in the art of 7th-century Jerusalem / Lawrence Nees -- Qasr al-Mshatta and the structure of late Roman and early Islamic fac̦ades / Claus-Peter Haase -- The destruction of images in 8th-century Palestine / Robert Schick -- The origins of musical notation in the Abrahamic religious traditions / Alan Gampel. |
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Art, Byzantine -- Congresses.
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Art, Byzantine -- Influence -- Congresses.
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Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- Islamic influences -- Congresses.
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081 -- Congresses.
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Islamic art -- Congresses.
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| Addt'l Author |
Evans, Helen C., editor.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
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| Alt Title |
Byzantine culture in the Islamic world |
| ISBN |
9781588395597 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
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1588395596 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
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9780300211115 (Yale University Press) |
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0300211112 (Yale University Press) |
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