Through a Glass Brightly
Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton
Published on 28. September 2016
256 pages
978-1-78570-273-0 (ISBN)
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The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.
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Content
- Intro
- List of Contributors
- Illustration Abbreviations and List of Plate Captions
- Bibliography for David Buckton
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. A dandy dipper: the Ambleteuse clepsydra, Empedocles, and wine-thieves I have known
- 2. Body-chains: Hellenistic to Late Roman
- 3. Light on Byzantium - a universal sundial in the British Museum
- 4. Visualising women in Late Antique Rome: the Projecta casket
- 5. Sources of cloisonné enamel: some early fused gold and glass inlays
- 6. On the date of the Symmachi panel and the so-called Grado Chair ivories
- 7. Who's that girl? Personifications of the Byzantine empress
- 8. A painting of Saint Kollouthos
- 9. Three illuminating objects in the Lampsacus treasure
- 10. Early Byzantine mercantile communities in the West
- 11. Studying the Byzantine staurothèque at Esztergom
- 12. Saint Theodore and the Dragon
- 13. Apotropaic devices on Byzantine lead seals in the Collections of Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art
- 14. Middle Byzantine (10th-13th century AD) stamp seals in semi-precious stone
- 15. The Bristol Psalter
- 16. The production of red glass and enamel in the Late Iron Age, Roman and Byzantine periods
- 17. 'The Celtic Fringe': two enamelled mounts
- 18. Some late tenth- and eleventh-century cloisonné enamel brooches and finger-rings from Denmark
- 19. Containers for Agnus Deis
- 20. Design and invention in Gothic architecture: Mildenhall and Ely
- 21. Abbé James Hamilton: antiquary, patron of the arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic
- 22. Nineteenth-century versions of the Veroli casket
- 23. A Venetian goblet made for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 with gold leaf medallions of Early Christian martyrs
- 24. Felix Slade's forgotten version of the so-called Early Christian 'Amiens Chalice'
- 25. 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth': the British Museum and the second Cyprus treasure
- Colour Plates
