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... tapped evidence of the ways in which artistic traditions were transformed by the need to legitimize the accession of a woman to power . Eastmond also challenges the typically held view that the role of patronage in the functioning ...
... tapped evidence of the ways in which artistic traditions were transformed by the need to legitimize the accession of a woman to power . Eastmond also challenges the typically held view that the role of patronage in the functioning ...
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My approach is to give the surviving visual evidence far greater weight as impor- tant historical evidence of the reigns of the kings and queens it depicts . It demon- strates the self - perception of the monarchy and its court .
My approach is to give the surviving visual evidence far greater weight as impor- tant historical evidence of the reigns of the kings and queens it depicts . It demon- strates the self - perception of the monarchy and its court .
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By placing much greater weight on visual evidence , this book must examine the relationship between the images and the historical texts and chronicles that describe the reigns of the rulers they depict . Both forms of evidence have ...
By placing much greater weight on visual evidence , this book must examine the relationship between the images and the historical texts and chronicles that describe the reigns of the rulers they depict . Both forms of evidence have ...
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This has overwhelmed the visual evidence , which provides instead a more fragmented and at times incoherent picture . By using visual evidence as my main source of evidence , I seek to reverse this process .
This has overwhelmed the visual evidence , which provides instead a more fragmented and at times incoherent picture . By using visual evidence as my main source of evidence , I seek to reverse this process .
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The aim of this book , then , is to reintegrate visual material into history , and to ex- ploit its evidence . The evidence of royal imagery in Georgia allows another , fundamental question to be asked . This is about who controlled ...
The aim of this book , then , is to reintegrate visual material into history , and to ex- ploit its evidence . The evidence of royal imagery in Georgia allows another , fundamental question to be asked . This is about who controlled ...
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Page xix - N. Thierry, Le souverain dans les programmes d'églises en Cappadoce et en Géorgie du X' au XIII' siècle, dans Revue des études géorgiennes et caucasiennes, 4, 1988, p.
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| Title | Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia |
| Author | Antony Eastmond |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Penn State Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0271043911, 9780271043913 |
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