Dr Antony Eastmond

Reader in the history of Byzantine art

 

Contact details:

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House

Strand

London WC2R 0RN

 

+44 (0) 20 7848 2165

antony.eastmond@courtauld.ac.uk

 

Antony Eastmond read History at Oxford, before coming to The Courtauld where he took his MA in Byzantine art and PhD in art in medieval Georgia. After two years as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld, in 1995 he moved to Warwick University as Research Fellow. In 2001 he was appointed Reader in the History of Art and Chair of Department at Warwick. He returned to The Courtauld as Reader in the History of Byzantine Art in 2004.

He is Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, and sits on the Wardrop Trust of the University of Oxford (which promotes the study of Georgia in the UK).

Current research/interests:

 

• Byzantine art in all forms, but especially Byzantine ivories
• Interchange between Christian and Islamic art in the medieval near east
• Medieval art in the Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia)

 

Programmes taught during the forthcoming academic year:

 

• MA Option: Byzantium and its rivals: Art, display and cultural identity in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean
• BA Option: Decline and Fall? Art and transformation in Late Antiquity
• BA Special Option: East and West in the Age of the Crusades
  
  

Recent/forthcoming publications:

2007

'Art and frontiers between Byzantium and the Caucasus', in Byzantium. Faith and Power (1261-1557): Perspectives on Late Byzantine Art and Culture, ed. S.T. Brooks [The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia] (New Haven & London: Yale, 2007), 154-69

'Un'eco della leggenda del Mandylion nell'Islam', in Intorno al Sacro Volto. Genova, Bisanzio e il Mediterraneo (secoli XI-XIV), eds. A.R.C. Masetti, et al. [Collana del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institut: 11] (Florence: Marsilio, 2007), 175-80

'Eat, drink. and pay the price', in Eat, drink and be merry (Luke 12:19) - Food and Wine in Byzantium, eds. L. Brubaker and K. Linardou [Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Publications: 13] (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 175-89 (with L. James)

2006

Entries on byzantine ivory and metalwork' in San Nicola. Splendori d'arte d'Oriente e d'Occidente, ed. M. Bacci (Milan: Skira, 2006), 205-07

2006

The Road to Byzantium: The Luxury arts of Antiquity (Fontanka: London) ed. with Peter Stewart and Robin Cormack,

 

2004

Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium. Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond (Ashgate: Aldershot)

 

2003

 

Icon and Word. The Power of images in Byzantium (Ashgate), ed. with Liz James

"Between Icon and Idol: the uncertainty of imperial images" in Icon and Word (Aldershot, 2003), 73-85

 

"'Local' saints, art and regional identity in the Orthodox world after the Fourth Crusade" Speculum 78 (2003), 707-49

‘Relics of the True Cross and Byzantine Identity’, in A. Lidov, ed., East Christian Relics (Moscow, 2003), 205-15

 

2001

editor of Eastern Approaches to Byzantium, Papers from the Thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, March 1999, (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Publications: 9), (Aldershot 2001)

 

"The cult of St Davit Garejeli: patronage and iconographic change in the Gareja Desert", in Z. Skhirtladze ed., Desert Monasticism: Gareja and the Christian East (Tbilisi, 2001), 220-239
(with Lynn Jones) "Robing, Power and Legitimacy in Armenia and Georgia", in S. Gordon ed., Robes and Honor. The Medieval World of Investiture [The New Middle Ages] (Palgrave, 2001), 146-191

1999

Eastmond, A., 'Narratives of the Fall: Structure and Meaning in the Genesis Frieze at Hagia Sophia, Trebizond', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999), 219-36

'Body vs. column: the cults of St Symeon Stylites', in Desire and Denial in Byzantium, ed. L. James [Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Publications: 6] (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), 87-100

 

1998

Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia (University Park, PA: Penn State)

 

1994

'An Intentional Error? Imperial Art and "Mis"-Interpretation under Andronikos I Komnenos', Art Bulletin 76 (1994), 502-10

Forthcoming

‘The St Petroc casket, a certain mutilated man, and the trade in ivories’ in D. Knipp, ed., Siculo Arabic Ivories (Rome, 2009)

'Udabno Monastery in Georgia: The innovation, conservation and reinterpretation of art in the Middle Ages', Iconographica. Rivista di iconografia medievale e moderna 7 (2008) (with Z. Skhirt'ladze)

In preparation

‘The Last chariot race’

‘Course, Heavy, Provincial, and Anything but Greek’: Italo-Byzantine ivories revisited’

‘The Audience for Consular Diptychs in Late Antiquity’