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L’ouvrage collectif Habiter l’ornement appelle à renouveler les études plus traditionnelles qui ont été consacrées à l’ornement au regard des pratiques artistiques contemporaines et des théories de ces dernières décennies. La réflexion se fonde sur une analyse critique de ce qui a défini et qualifié l’ornement depuis des siècles selon des approches parfois opposées : l’ornement est second, illégitime, mensonger, non nécessaire, non essentiel, supplémentaire, superflu, superficiel, dispendieux, condamnable, bien plus encore qu’il ne fut, selon les périodes ou les territoires, vecteur d’une démarche culturelle et spirituelle, objet de sensibilité, d’émotion, de plaisir, d’harmonie, de beauté et d’ordre. La sémantique de l’ornement est en effet d’une ambiguïté certaine si l’on s’en remet aux textes fondateurs et à leurs interprétations successives. Les réflexions appellent donc à toutes les actualisations du terme ornement et de l’évolution de son sens et de son usage. Cependant cet ouvrage prétend déplacer quelque peu l’approche du sujet. Habiter l’ornement suppose que l’on s’attache à des questions plus liées à des pratiques habitantes telles qu’Heidegger en a développé une trame essentielle dans « Bâtir, habiter, penser » et « “L’homme habite en poète” ». En quoi et comment l’habiter, en tant que disposition physique ou de l’esprit, se déployant dans le temps et dans l’espace en des manières d’être au monde spécifiques à chacun, est-il indissolublement lié à des pratiques ornementales ? Quel rapport l’ornemental entretient-il avec la façon d’habiter la ville, une maison, son propre corps, le monde ? Quelles propositions les architectes, les designers, les plasticiens font-ils au regard des pratiques de l’habiter et de ses représentations ? Comment le regard de chacun a-t-il la capacité de transformer toute chose en ornement et quelle relation particulière l’ornement entretient-il avec le jugement esthétique qui se joue dans l’habiter ?

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually.These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts – Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan – acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship.Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean.

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Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are now understood as times of extraordinary skill and creativity in the decorative arts. In the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) artists and craftsmen transitioned from 'Roman' to 'Byzantine' art and inspired a move from naturalism to a more hieratic and symbolic style, drawing on the deep artistic links connecting the Mediterranean world and the East. 0The many spectacular artefacts from this period in the Wyvern Collection are luxury objects, most commissioned by wealthy patrons or the Church, ranging in date from the fourth century to around 1300. Masterpieces of great significance for art history, including a 5th-century Artemis missorium, previously unpublished, and an 11th-century enamelled enkolpion from Constantinople are among the highlights of the collection. Other extraordinary objects - Late Roman chariot decorations, a stone funerary door from Syria and brooches brought across Europe by the families of Roman soldiers - complete this artistic panorama of the great Mediterranean and Persian civilizations, whose creative influence extended to the far west of the Islamic world. 0The catalogue, by Byzantine metalwork expert Marco Aimone, is augmented by three essays from technical specialists: Jack Ogden (enamelling), Peter Northover (metallurgy) and Erica Cruikshank Dodd (hallmarks). Rika Gyselen also contributes readings of Persian inscriptions.

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