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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Artistic Production in Lusignan Cyprus (1192-1489).
  Encounters and Resistances within a Society in Motion
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DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture in English presented by Marina Toumpouri (Athens
 )\n\nIn 1191\, during the third Crusade Richard I the Lionheart conquered 
 Cyprus. This event marked the end of a period of more than three centuries
  of Byzantine rule. The island was offered in 1192 to his vassal\, Guy de 
 Lusignan\, who became the founder of the Lusignan dynasty that would rule 
 the island for almost three centuries (1192-1489). With the arrival of the
  new sovereigns\, the local population experienced rapid and successive ch
 anges in political structures\, social organization\, accessibility to cul
 tural references\, artistic practices and norms\, since the Lusignans rema
 ined faithful to their cultural and religious identity. Despite the absenc
 e of violent conflicts between the two main religious group throughout the
  three centuries of Frankish rule\, day-to-day contacts did not result in 
 large scale fusion. Between the end of the thirteenth and the fourteenth c
 entury Cyprus was enjoying an extensive period of political stability and 
 economic prosperity. Within this frame the two dominant cultures on the is
 land came to achieve finally a rapprochement that was not previously obser
 ved\, reflected in the realm of the arts. However\, this new eclectic styl
 e was promoted by the elites\, both Latin and Greek\, while the largest pa
 rt of the Greek-Cypriot population was constantly resisting the alien infl
 uences and novelties\, preferring to remain strongly attached to its Byzan
 tine Orthodox heritage.\n\nIn this presentation I will make an attempt to 
 contextualize the above through presenting and discussing a number of monu
 ments and artefacts (panel and monumental paintings\, manuscripts\, archit
 ecture) produced in Cyprus\, or\, commissioned by members of the Cypriot n
 obility (Latin or Greek) during the time of Lusignan rule. What will be di
 scussed will be therefore the impact of the social changes on the artistic
  production of the island\, including how the concerns of the two religiou
 s groups were expressed throughout the period considered.\n\n 
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/gastvortrag-von-marina-tou
 mpouri/
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