Ioli kalavrezou biography of barack

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Ioli Kalavrezou is a specialist in the history of Byzantine images, with a particular interest in icon production and the intersection of religious imagery and.

Harvard art history faculty

Ioli Kalavrezou is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History at Harvard University.

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History, Department of History of.

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Papers by Ioli Kalavrezou

Dalmatia and the Mediterranean

This chapter focuses on a luxury textile produced in the second half of the 13th century and pres...

more This chapter focuses on a luxury textile produced in the second half of the 13th century and presented as a gift to an Italian embassy from the Republic of Genoa, which had visited the Byzantine emperor in Nikaia to negotiate a diplomatic treaty.

The author chose this object here because it is one of the few surviving portable objects that must have played an important role in its historical context. The textile is unique in that it has a significant political association with the site of the Byzantine imperial palace at Nymphaion, in the eastern Mediterranean, where an event occurred that almost shifted the power dynamics that exis