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EMPATHETIC VISION: LOOKING AT AND WITH A PERFORMATIVE BYZANTINE MINIATURE
Author(s) -
NELSON ROBERT S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8365
pISSN - 0141-6790
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2007.00559.x
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , performative utterance , liturgy , spectacle , gospel , art , iconoclasm , visual arts , art history , history , literature , aesthetics , classics , archaeology , market economy , economics
A Byzantine Gospel Lectionary in Florence contains a detailed description of the liturgical rites on 1 September. The manuscript's illustration for that day is interpreted art historically and then read against that liturgy so as to distinguish the heuristic processes of the discipline from the empathetic vision of the person for whom the manuscript was made and used: the Patriarch of Constantinople. The display that art history assumes and creates is contrasted with a performative spectacle of the Middle Ages.