Abstract

An investigation of the transcultural and transdoctrinal artistic vocabulary developed in the medieval Mediterranean elaborates de visual culture arising from the creative dialogue between Byzantine art and other Christian artistic idioms in the Levant and southern Italy. Analysis of monumental painting along with medieval historical sources, such as papal letters and monastic foundation documents, of what are nowadays Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, and southern Italy (with an emphasis on Apulia) reveals the existence of a tripartite commonwealth, involving Cyprus, the Holy Land, and southern Italy in about 1200 to 1300.

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