Some notes on artistic life in Thessalonica during the Latin rule (1204–1224)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-1-99-116
Abstract
The article summarizes opinions and hypotheses put forward in the research literature regarding the activities of Thessalonian workshops in the time of the Latin kingdom of Thessaloniki (1204–1224). The material under consideration covers works of enamel art, eulogies associated with the veneration of the city’s patron, St. Demetrius, and icons and fragments of monumental paintings preserved in the city and its environs. These works of art, which are remarkable for their stylistic diversity and have not been assigned firm dates, hardly allow us to reconstruct the artistic life of this period in clear outlines. Nevertheless, they provide rich material for further discussion of the interactions of Thessalonian artists with artisans from other regions (both of the Byzantine world and of the West), as well as of their participation in the development of a new pictorial language in Byzantine art.
About the Author
M. I. Yakovleva
Central Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria I. Yakovleva, Cand. of Sci. (Art Studies)
bld. 10, Andronievskaya Sq., Moscow, 105120
References
1. Bauer, F.A. (2013), Eine Stadt und ihr Patron. Thessaloniki und der Heilige Demetrios, Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Regensburg, Germany.
2. Bosselmann-Ruickbie, A. (2021), “Palaeologan Luxury Art in a “Period of Decline”: Byzantine Enamel of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries and Its Potential for Innovation”, in M. Martiniani-Reber, A.-L. Rey, G. Lini (ed.), Autour des métiers du luxe à Byzance. Actes du colloque international organisé dans le cadre de l’exposition “Byzance en Suisse”, 26–27 février 2016, Musée d’art et d’histoire et Université de Genève, online publication: https://collections.geneve.ch/mah/publication/autour-des-metiers-du-luxe-byzance
3. Bredenkamp, F. (1996), The Byzantine Empire of Thessaloniki (1224–1242), Thessaloniki history center, Thessaloniki, Greece.
4. Effenberger, A. (1983), “Ein byzantinisches Emailkreuz mit Besitzerungsinschrift”, Cahiers archéologiques. Fin de l’antiquité et moyen age, no. 31, pp. 114–127.
5. Etinhof, O.E. (2017), “Examination of artistic ties between Vladimir and Thessaloniki at the close of the 12th century, revisited”, in Makedoniya – Rim – Vizantiya: iskusstvo Severnoi Gretsii ot antichnosti do srednikh vekov: materialy nauchnoi konferentsii [Macedonian – Roman – Byzantine: The art of Northern Greece from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the conference], KDU, Universitetskaya kniga, Moscow, Russia, pp. 142–165. (Trudy istoricheskogo fakul’teta MGU, 109; Seriya 2: Istoricheskiye issledovaniya, 69)
6. Fundić, L. (2013), H mnhmeiakή tέchnh toy Despotάtoy thc Hpeίroy thn perίodo thc Dynasteίac twn Komnhnώn Aggέlwn (1204–1318). Didaktorikή Diatribή, Θεσσαλονίκη, Greece.
7. Fundić, L. (2013), “Art and political ideology in the state of Epiros during the reign of Theodore Doukas (r. 1215–1230)”, Βυζαντινά Σύμμεικτα, vol. 23, pp. 217–250.
8. Jolivet-Lévy, C. (2012), “La peinture à Constantinople au XIIIe siècle. Contacts et échanges avec l’Occident”, in Caillet, J-P. et Joubert, F. (ed.), Orient et Occident méditerranéens au XIIIe siècle. Les programmes picturaux, Picard, Paris, France, pp. 21–40.
9. Kissas, S. (1987), “L’art de Salonique du début du XIIIeme s. et la peinture de Mileševa”, in Djurić, V.J. (ed.), Mileševa dans l’histoire du peuple serbe: colloque scientifique international a l’occasion de 750 ans de son existence. Juin 1985, Académie Serbe des sciences et des arts, Beograd, Serbia, pp. 37–49.
10. Kissas, S. (1996), “A Sepulchral Monument in Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki”, Museum of Byzantine Culture, no. 3, pp. 36–40.
11. Likhenko, A. (2021), “Frescoes of Аcheiropoietos in Thessaloniki: conservatism and novation in Byzantine art of the first half of the 13th century”, in Zakharova, A.V., Maltseva, S.V. and Staniukovich-Denisova, E.Yu. (eds.), Aktual’nye problemy teorii i istorii iskusstva: sbornik nauchnykh statei [Actual problems of theory and history of art: collection of articles], vol. 11, Saint Petersburg Univ. Press, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 437–452.
12. Mouriki, D. (1991), “Variants of the Hodegetria on two thirteenth-century Sinai icons”, Cahiers archéologiques. Fin de l’antiquité et Moyen Âge, no. 39, pp. 153–182.
13. Παϊσίδου, M. (2021), “Σπαράγματα τοιχογραφιών του 13ου αιώνα από την Αγία Θεοδώρα Θεσσαλονίκης”, in ΑΡΧΟΝΤΑΡΙΚΙ. Αφιέρωμα στον Ευθύμιο Ν. Τσιγαρίδα, Οργανισμός Διαχείρισης και Ανάπτυξης Πολιτιστικών Πόρων, Αθήνα, Greece, ς. 391–405.
14. Παπαζώτος, Θ. (1994), Η Βέροια και οι ναοί της (11ος–18ος αι.), Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων, Αθήνα, Greece.
15. Stepanenko, V.P. (2003), “K ikonografii freski khrama ‘Trekh vsadnikov’ pod Eski- Kermenom” [On the Iconography of the Fresco in the “Three Horsemen” Church near Eski-Kermen], Materialy po arkheologii, istorii i etnografii Tavrii, X, pp. 452–457.
16. Stepanenko, V.P. (2005), “Lead icon with the miracle of the rescued young man from Novgorod and the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica in Byzantium and Bulgaria at the end of the 12th – first half of the 13th centuries”, in Acta musei Varnaensis III–2. Bъlgarskite zemi prez srednovekoviyeto (VII–XVIII vv.). Mezhdunarodna konferentsiya v chest na 70-godishninata na prof. Aleksandъr Kuzev. Varna, 12–14 septemvri 2002 g. [The Bulgarian lands in the middle ages. 7th – 18th centuries. International Conference attribute to the 70th anniversary of Prof. Alexander Kuzev], Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 245–260.
17. Tsigaridas, E. (1987), “Les peintures murals de l’Ancienne Métropole de Veria”, in Djurić, V.J. (ed.), Mileševa dans l’histoire du peuple serbe: colloque scientifique international a l’occasion de 750 ans de son existence. Juin 1985, Académie Serbe des sciences et des arts, Beograd, Serbia, pp. 91–101.
18. Van Tricht, F. (2019), “The arts and artistic production in Latin-Byzantine Constantinople”, in Van Tricht, F., The horoscope of emperor Baldwin II. Political and sociocultural dynamics in Latin-Byzantine Constantinople, Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, Boston, USA, pp. 186–207.
19. Zalesskaya, V.N. (2001), “Thessalonian icons – eulogies and images of the Latin Empire”, Piligrimy: Istoriko-kulturnaya rol palomnichestva: sbornik nauchykh trudov: k XX Mezhdunarodnomu kongressu vizantinistov (Parizh, 19–25 avgusta 2001 g.) [The pilgrims. historical and cultural phenomenon of pilgrimage. Collected papers. Meeting the 20th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Paris, August 19–25, 2001], Izdatel’stvo Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 78–82.
Review
For citations:
Yakovleva M.I. Some notes on artistic life in Thessalonica during the Latin rule (1204–1224). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(1):99-116. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-1-99-116
Views:
205
Email this article 