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Based on the evidence of epigraphic material in combination with monumental painting, this book explores important dedicatory inscriptions (9th-beginning of the 13th c.) from Macedonia and Thrace, which have so far been investigated mainly from a philological-historical standpoint, thus neglecting the major issue of Middle Byzantine patronage. Through patron inscriptions and textual sources, the role and the motives of military officials in the patronage of defensive and fortification works, and the manner of publicizing them, are examined systematically. Patronage is looked at through the ideological messages that the donors endeavor to promote in a local society or monastic community, and which echo their relationship with the state and their views on education and faith. The new interpretations presented in this book result from the collation of historical, prosopographical, archaeological and visual data, which offer valuable evidence about military patronage, the relation of the donation to the personal life of the donor and his family, the spiritual life of monasticism and the building complex of the monastery, and the relationship between inscriptions, space and iconography. Interesting methodologically is the co-examination of the various categories of inscriptions in combination with historical texts and donor portraits, which opens up new avenues of research for the study of the interdisciplinary material in question.0

Auftraggeber. --- Epigraphik. --- Stifter. --- Inschrift. --- Makedonien --- Thrakien. --- Byzantinisches Reich.

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Overview: Although the concept of patronage has long been central to medieval studies, it is still not well understood. In order to identify the person or institution responsible for the work, scholars have attempted to impose principles across a broad range of works to which they may or may not apply. In many cases this has prevented a full understanding of the work. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, the key to understanding patronage is to realize that a variety of contexts and situations may exist that prevent one definition from being imposed. The concept of patronage relates to issues such as gender, social and economic history, as well as the world of politics, and the many possible roles of the patron can range from paying for the work to designing it to using it. But we do not know what input the artist had, or how influential he or she may have been. The essays in this volume, from those that look at patronage from a theoretical perspective to individual case studies, highlight our need to look at the subject anew.

art history --- Art --- patrons --- anno 500-1499 --- Christian art and symbolism. --- Patronage, Ecclesiastical. --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Patronage ecclésiastique --- Art patronage --- Art, Medieval. --- Auftraggeber. --- Kunst. --- Kongress --- Art patronage. --- History --- To 1500. --- patrons [philanthropists] --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Patronage ecclésiastique

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This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the images around them provided visual prompts of the Passion and the model suffering body. This study presents new findings related to a variety of artworks including altarpieces, banners, wall paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings for the condemned, many from outside the Florence-Rome-Venice triangle.

Christian religious orders --- Art --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Suffering in art. --- Art, Italian --- Flagellants. --- Confraternities. --- Art, Italian. --- Andachtsbild --- Auftraggeber --- Bruderschaft --- Flagellanten --- Kunst --- Ritual --- 1400-1499 --- Italien --- Flagellants and flagellation --- Ascetics --- Sodalities --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Lay confraternities, flagellation, Italian painting and manuscript illumination 14th-17th centuries.