"When you behold these man, you see the whole year". A Study of Byzantine Pictorial Calendars, an Embryo of a Corpus

Authors

  • Gunilla Åkerström-Hougen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/acta.5715

Abstract

This is a presentation of ongoing research concerning Byzantine pictorial calendars. The Byzantine personifications of the months are unique in that they represent scenes from everyday life – a milieu for which the artist could find inspiration from his own surroundings, and also be free from the formulated language of the religious images. With a point of departure in the sixth-century Argos mosaic, the author presents a series of images up to the 15th century, all of which display a Byzantine iconography.

How to Cite

Åkerström-Hougen, G. (2017) “‘When you behold these man, you see the whole year’. A Study of Byzantine Pictorial Calendars, an Embryo of a Corpus”, Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 18(4 N.S.), pp. 159–174. doi: 10.5617/acta.5715.