Towards Rewriting New Approaches To Byzantine Archaeology And Art Proceedings Of The Symposium On Byzantine Art And Archaeology Cracow September 810 2008 Piotr Grotowski by Piotr Ł. Grotowski, Sławomir Skrzyniarz (eds.) 9788392839927, 8392839927 instant download after payment.

In order to give an answer to the question how Byzantine Art History will look in the future, we will have to wait. However, what we can do now is to put before the audience the collected papers presented at the International Symposium 'Towards Rewriting? New Approaches to Byzantine Art and Archaeology', organized by the Faculty of Church History of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow and the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, held on September, 8–10, 2008, and attended mostly by scholars of the younger generation. We decided not to divide texts on art history and archeology into separate sections as we deeply believe that close cooperation between the two disciplines is inevitable and modern Byzantine scholars should use as much evidence delivered by their colleagues as possible. The volume was instead divided – just like the conference itself – into three parts: 'Attitudes', 'Interpretations' and 'Discoveries'. The authors of the papers included into the first two sections tried to look under a different angle (sometimes using new methods or assumptions) in order to find out answers for issues still unresolved. It is on the reader to assess whether they managed to do it and whether their theories appear verifiable. The third part focuses on the objects unknown to the broader audience – not only new archaeological finds, but also unpublished artifacts stored in museums. At the end of the volume we added three texts under headline 'Contribution to the Studies on Byzantine Art – Past & Future', presenting issues connected with the history of Byzantine Art History and a project recently undertaken by a group of art historians from Vienna.