The art of the icon, a visual idiom born in the Eastern Church, has deeply influenced the visual creations of Western Christianity from the Middle Ages onward, despite the adoption of a different aesthetic that was created in opposition to this maniera greca during the Renaissance. Even though artistic modernity was built against this art considered ‘awkward’, it did not prevent the ‘Byzantine’ style to come back to surface several times in the West. This volume aims to question the reasons of these revivals of the art of the icon in distinct Western artistic and religious contexts. It will highlight in particular the issues underlying the meeting, and sometimes the merging, of the two visual cultures, but also the complex and often conflicting relationships between art and religion.
Foreword
Eyckonic
Christine Perpette and Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel
Introduction
Revivals or Survival? Resurgences of the Icon from the 15th Century to the Present Day
Ralph Dekoninck and Ingrid Falque
Van Eyck, the Icons of the Holy Face, and the Politics of Miracles
Till-Holger Borchert
The New Lamb and the Iconic Gaze
Barbara Baert
Bellini’s Renewed Icons of Mary and Their Appropriation on Crete
Michele Bacci
Titian’s Icons
Christopher J. Nygren
Faces of Christ in Art Beyond Traditional Frontality
François Boespflug
The Status of Icons in a Christian Art Ideal of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Contempt, Fascination and Appropriation
Isabelle Saint-Martin
121 ‘In Search of a Painting Without Labels’: The Rediscovery of Byzantine Icon-Painting in Modern Greece During the 20th Century
Dimitra Kotoula
137 20th-Century Avatars of Christic Icons in Art and Advertising: Transformations and Decontextualisations
Jérôme Cottin
From Byzantium to the Low Countries
Bellini, Titiaan, Canaletto, Van Eyck, Bouts, Jordaens...
Meesterwerken van de Accademia Carrara van Bergamo en het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
Masterpieces face-to-face
The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
Painter. The Complete Works
