Lawrence (Professor Nees, Department of Art History University of Delaware)

Lawrence Nees

Professor Department of Art History Lawrence Nees

Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.

Early Medieval Art

Perspectives on early Islamic art in Jerusalem

Steven Fine

Carol Snow

Edward Bleiberg

Lisa R. Brody

Claus-Peter Haase

Arnold E. Franklin

Alan Gampel

Lyle Humphrey

Hieromonk Justin of Sinai

Annie Montgomery Labatt

Robert Schick

Building on the groundbreaking 2012 exhibition “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” which explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century, the present volume extends the exhibition catalogue’s innovative investigation of cultural interaction between Christian and Jewish communities and the world of Islam. Eleven essays by internationally distinguished scholars address such topics as the transmission of Christian imagery to the Mediterranean, icons preserved in The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai, interaction between Jewish communities and the Muslim world, the purposeful mutilation of figurative floor mosaics in places of worship, the evolution of classical and Byzantine motifs in a new cosmology for Muslim rulers, and interconnections in the realm of music. Each essay provides compelling evidence that the era of transition from Byzantine to Islamic rule in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa resulted in unprecedented cultural cross-fertilization and significantly affected the development of the Mediterranean world for centuries to come.

Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Age of Transition

On a section of Theodulf of Orléans' poem Contra iudices, and the ivories depicting scenes from the life of Hercules on the Chair of St. Peter.

Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court

A Tainted Mantle

William M. Newman

The Gundohinus Gospels

In Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem, Lawrence Nees analyzes early Islamic monuments on the Haram al-Sharif, or the Temple Mount: the Dome of the Chain, and the capitals with figures of eagles in the Dome of the Rock.

Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem

Lawrence Nees

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