Description: Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe discusses the cultural and artistic interaction between the Byzantine East and Western Europe, from the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 to the flourishing of post-Byzantine artistic workshops on Venetian Crete during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the formation of icon collections in Renaissance Italy. The contributors examine the routes by which artistic interaction may have taken place, and explore the reception of Byzantine art in Western Europe, analysing why artists and patrons were interested in ideas from the other side of the cultural and religious divide. The book offers new perspectives and insights and re-positions late- and post- Byzantine art in a broader European cultural context.
Review Quotes: 'By focusing on material outside the art historical canon, this book fleshes out some concrete cases of cultural interaction between the Byzantine East and Western Europe. These examples provide interesting windows into the larger query about the relationship between the art of these regions ...' Studies in Iconography