 |
Funeral Oration of Manuel II Palaiologos for His Brother Theodore
Constantinople, 1309–1
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département
des Manuscrits, Paris (Supplément grec 309)
|
|
•• The currents of Late Byzantine culture, shaped by foreign conquest
of Byzantine lands, diplomatic marriage, travel, and international
trade, are reflected in the wealth of surviving portraits from
the Late Byzantine sphere. Throughout the empire’s long
history, donors, authors, and the ruling elite chose to commemorate
themselves in portraits in all media, including monumental mosaic
and fresco, miniature painting, sculpture and coinage. This
tradition continued into the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, both in Byzantium and in its neighboring states,
with the majority of portraits surviving in miniature and monumental
painting.
Themes in Late Byzantine Art
Introduction | Peoples of the Byzantine
Sphere | Visual Expressions of the Faith
| The Byzantine Sphere and the Islamic
World | The Byzantine Sphere and the
West
|
|
