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Holy Cross visits Princeton University for Byzantine Art Exhibit On Saturday, April 10th, members of Holy Cross parish visited Princeton University for a guided tour of the recent exhibit featuring Byzantine art and iconography. A description of the exhibit appears below.
Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine ArtMarch 6, 2010–June 6, 2010
The exhibition will be the first
of its kind devoted to the topic of Byzantine architectural representation,
challenging long-held assumptions in Western art history and providing new
ways of understanding Byzantine art and architecture from A.D. 300 to the
early nineteenth century. Among the nearly seventy works on view will be
seldom-seen objects and icons from thirty-four public and private
collections in eleven countries, including the State History Museum in
Erevan, Armenia; the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; the
Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece; and the National Museum of Art in
Bucharest, Romania.
The exhibition is
accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by the Art Museum
available at the
Museum Store.
Architecture as Icon is
co-organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the European Center
for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments in Thessaloniki, Greece. The
curator at Princeton is Slobodan Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology at
Princeton University.
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