Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome by Annie Montgomery L... - 9781498571159

Emerging Iconographies of Medieval RomeA Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries\nAuthor(s): Annie Montgomery Labatt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498571159, 978-1498571159\nSynopsis\nEmerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome examines the development of Christian iconographies that had not yet established themselves as canonical images, but which were being tried out in various ways in early Christian Rome. This book focuses on four different iconographical forms that appeared in Rome during the eighth and ninth centuries: the Anastasis, the Transfiguration, the Maria Regina, and the Sickness of Hezekiahall of which were labeled Byzantine by major mid-twentieth century scholars. The trend has been to readily accede to the pronouncements of those prominent authors, subjugating these rich images to a grand narrative that privileges the East and turns Rome into an artistic backwater. In this st.