CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Kasovska Suzana |
|---|---|
| Title | Between the Tradition and Innovation: Christian Floor Mosaics at Heraclea Lyncestis from the Fourth to the Sixth Century |
| Summary | This research focuses on the Christian floor mosaics at Heraclea Lyncestis, Macedonia. These pavements, comprising a corpus of fourteen mosaics, are dated from the fourth to the end of the sixth century. Four of them are geometric patterns and the other ten have figural elements; most of them are made of opus tesselatum, but one is made of opus sectile. The mosaics are only found in the ecclesiastical buildings; most of them are related to religious mosaics which refer to Christian doctrine. Until now scholars have considered these mosaics from this site only from the iconographic and stylistic perspectives. The goal of this thesis is to answer following questions: Why do different images appear on the mosaics in different rooms one of the same building and can a connection be drawn between the imagery itself and the place where they are depicted? These questions are answered through various approaches: By comparing the function of the rooms with the iconography of the imagery itself; by putting these mosaics in the framework of the stylistic developments in the art of mosaics from the Balkan Peninsula; by detecting the social context of the mosaics, and by following the patrons of the mosaics through inscriptions. |
| Supervisor | Saghy Marienne, Bela Zsolt Szakács, József Laszlovszky |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/kasovska_suzana.pdf |
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