Byzantines A.D. 800-1000
Accession number | AR.EP.CL.0399 |
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Creator | |
Date |
1882
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Measurements |
6 x 11 inches
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Materials/Techniques |
illustration
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Work types |
chromolithograph
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Description
TRANSCRIPTION
Byzantines. A.D. 800-1000
1. 2. Warriors, 800.
3. Nicephorus I., 811.
4. 8. Men of Rank.
5. Arms-bearer.
6. 9. Basilius, 886.
7. Bishop.
10. Empress.
11. Emperor.
12. Basilius II., 1025.
[Plate 24 from Albert Kretschmer and Karl Rohrbach, The costumes of all nations from the earlies times to the nineteenth century: exhibiting the dresses and habits of all classes, regal, ecclesiastical, noble, military, judicial, and civil (London, H. Sotheran & Co., 1882).]
EXHIBITION
Imagining the Empress: Theodora in Popular Culture, 1882-1922
April-October 2017
The 1880s saw increased popular interest in the style and aesthetics of the Byzantine Empire. This page from Kretschmer’s Costumes of all Nations depicts a colorful variety of imperial fashions, with an unnamed emperor and empress occupying center stage. Kretschmer, a professional scholar of costume history, marketed this work to mass audiences. The book plate offered a glimpse of Byzantium that was largely divorced from historical narrative or named figures, focusing instead on the purely visual and aesthetic legacy of the Empire.
Collection
Repository
Accession number | AR.EP.CL.0399 |
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Creator | |
Date |
1882
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Measurements |
6 x 11 inches
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Materials/Techniques |
illustration
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Work types |
chromolithograph
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