Figural Sculpture in Eleventh-Century Dalmatia and Croatia: Patronage, Architectural Context, History...

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Magdalena Skoblar

Figural Sculpture in Eleventh-Century Dalmatia and Croatia

Patronage, Architectural Context, History

Magdalena Skoblar

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English

Routledge
27 October 2016

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; Sculpture; History of architecture; Archaeology

This is the first full-length, English-language study of eleventh-century figural sculpture produced in Dalmatia and Croatia. Challenging the dependency on stylistic analysis in previous scholarship, Magdalena Skoblar contextualises the visual presence of these relief carvings in their local communities, focusing on five critical sites. Alongside an examination of architectural setting and iconography, this book also investigates archaeological and textual evidence to establish the historical situation within which these sculptures were produced and received. Croatia and Dalmatia in the eleventh century were a borderland between Byzantium and the Latin west where the balance of power was constantly changing. These sculptures speak of the fragmented and hybrid nature of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean as a whole, where well-connected trade routes and porous boundaries informed artistic production. Moreover, in contrast to elsewhere in Europe where contemporary figural sculpture was spurred on by monastic communities, this book argues that the patronage of such artworks in Dalmatia and Croatia was driven by members of the local secular elites. For the first time, these sculptures are being introduced to Anglophone scholarship, and this book contributes to a fuller understanding of the profound changes in medieval attitudes towards sculpture after the year 1000.

By: Magdalena Skoblar
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9781472466037
ISBN 10: 1472466039
Pages: 18
Publication Date: 27 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Magdalena Skoblar is a Research Associate of the University of York and a Research Fellow of the British School at Rome.

Reviews for Figural Sculpture in Eleventh-Century Dalmatia and Croatia: Patronage, Architectural Context, History

The text is nicely written and supplemented with relevant black-and-white images and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The book thus makes accessible to a wider audience the visual material and also existing scholarship, most of which circulates in non-Western European languages. Finally, the case study approach offers a model that could be emulated in future investigations of little-known works, sites, and cultures. --Speculum