Open Access"When you behold these man, you see the whole year". A Study of Byzantine Pictorial Calendars, an Embryo of a Corpus
Author(s) -
Gunilla ÅkerströmHougen
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2611-3686
pISSN - 0065-0900
DOI - 10.5617/acta.5715
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , iconography , behold , presentation (obstetrics) , everyday life , art , literature , history , visual arts , classics , art history , philosophy , medicine , epistemology , radiology
This is a presentation of ongoing research concerning Byzantine pictorial calendars. The Byzantine personifications of the months are unique in that they represent scenes from everyday life – a milieu for which the artist could find inspiration from his own surroundings, and also be free from the formulated language of the religious images. With a point of departure in the sixth-century Argos mosaic, the author presents a series of images up to the 15th century, all of which display a Byzantine iconography.