In this volume Anthi Andronikou explores the social, cultural, religious and trade encounters between Italy and Cyprus during the late Middle Ages, from ca. 1200 -1400, and situates them within several Mediterranean contexts. Revealing the complex artistic exchange between the two regions for the first time, she probes the rich but neglected cultural interaction through comparison of the intriguing thirteenth-century wall paintings in rock-cut churches of Apulia and Basilicata, the puzzling panels of the Madonna della Madia and the Madonna di Andria, and painted chapels in Cyprus, Lebanon, and Syria. Andronikou also investigates fourteenth-century cross-currents that have not been adequately studied, notably the cult of Saint Aquinas in Cyprus, Crusader propaganda in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and a unique series of icons crafted by Venetian painters working in Cyprus. Offering new insights into Italian and Byzantine visual cultures, her book contributes to a broader understanding of cultural production and worldviews of the medieval Mediterranean.

This book offers novel viewpoints and material on Byzantine and Italian arts from a comparative perspective.

About the Author
Anthi Andronikou is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. A recipient of fellowships and awards from Princeton University, the British School at Rome, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Dranakis Prize, she has co-edited (with Peter Humfrey) The Pittas Collection:Mythological Paintings and Sculptures.


Book Information
ISBN 9781316510926
Author Anthi Andronikou
Format Hardback
Page Count 410
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1060g
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 185mm * 24mm