Cross-cultural interpretations of imagery in the Middle Ages.
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 12/1/1994
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Author: Zeitler, Barbara
There can be little doubt that the encounter between medieval Western Europe and Byzantium is an issue of great complexity. In art-historical writing this engagement between East and West in the Middle Ages has conventionally been explained in terms of the "influence" of Byzantine art on the art of the medieval West.(1) The encounter, however, can be considered in much broader terms as the interaction of two related, yet very different cultures. From the perspective of the visual arts, ...
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