Elena N. Boeck, The Bronze 221 Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople: The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 451 pages, 69 figures and maps, and 4 tables. ISBN: 9781107197275

Year 2021, Volume 3, 221 - 223, 30.12.2021

Brigitte PİTARAKİS

https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2021.18

Abstract

The book review of Elena N. Boeck, The Bronze 221 Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople: The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 451 pages, 69 figures and maps, and 4 tables. ISBN: 9781107197275 written by Brigitte Pitarakis

Keywords

Byzantium, Justinian, Constantinople, cross cultural

References

• Byzance: L’art byzantin dans les collections publiques françaises (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1992), no. 113.
• See Stephanos Efthymiadis, “Diegesis on Hagia Sophia from Late Antiquity to Tenth-Century Byzantium,” Byzantinoslavica 73 (2015): 7–21, which offers an interesting perspective on this issue.
• French wording in tribute to Gilbert Dagron, Constantinople imaginaire: études sur le recueil des “Patria” (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1984).
• See Jannic Durand, “À propos du grand groupe en bronze de l’archange saint Michel et de l’empereur Michel VIII Paléologue à Constantinople,” in La sculpture en Occident: études offertes à Jean-René Gaborit, ed. Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Françoise Baron, and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam (Paris: Éditions Faton, 2007), 47–57.
• See, for example, Gerard Gonzáles Germain, “The Epigraphical Legacy of Cyriac of Ancona: Felice Feliciano’s Trace in a Fake Inscription from Tarragona (CIL II 383* = 112/14, 43*),” Faventia 32–33 (2010–2011): 215–224.