Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2026

Византийски композиции в ренесансови мазки: съхранението на maniera greca в ранномодерната художествена практика

Byzantine compositions in Renaissance brushstrokes: the survival of maniera greca in Early-Modern pictorial practice

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What happened to Byzantine art, or maniera greca, during the Italian Renaissance? For Vasari it vanished completely after being replaced with the beautiful “new” art generated by Cimabue, Giotto and Duccio. This fundamental idea, which has been borrowed ever since, still stands as the corner-stone of Early-Modern Art History. It was designed at a time when the Medici wanted to proclaim their city as the art-centre of the world and when Vasari was no less than their court painter. For this reason, Vasari’s ideas do not always reveal the historical realia of his time. Rather, they serve as an ideological discourse showing the triumph of Florentine and Western art over Byzantine tradition. However flattering, this discourse is of course hugely exaggerated. Yes: Renaissance Florence did become a new “cultural Constantinople”. But this did not mean that Byzantine ideas, books and icons went out of trade or fashion. On the contrary, it was precisely Byzantine intellectuals fleeing the Ottomans who brought in Italy the Greek texts that fuelled Renaissance thought and connected once more Western Europe to the ancient Hellenic world. At the same time, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 was accompanied by a massive transfer of artworks from East to the West, where Greek mosaic and tempera icons integrated the prestigious collections of pope Pius II, Lorenzo the Magnificent and cardinal Bessarion. Our communication will show that Renaissance painters were still immensely indebted to these Byzantine models. Consciously or most likely unconsciously, they borrowed Byzantine compositions and visual language, and sometimes developed styles similar to those of contemporary Eastern iconographers. Our inquiry will focus on possible parallels between Early-Modern Italian and Late-Byzantine artworks examining whether their compositions are variations on the same early Christian models, or whether they can considered be considered as an expression of a Pan-European Renaissance “air de temps” – a world of cultural exchange that transcended linguistic, political and theological boundaries.

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hal-05464019 , version 1 (18-01-2026)

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Nikola Piperkov. Византийски композиции в ренесансови мазки: съхранението на maniera greca в ранномодерната художествена практика. Евтимиеви дни. Четвърти научни четения, Великотърновски университет "Св. св. Кирил и Методий" (ВТУ), Jan 2026, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. ⟨hal-05464019⟩
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