- Art, Byzantine art history, History of Dress, Early Islamic Art Up to the Ottomans, Art of the Medieval West, Art History, and 33 moreByzantine Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Visual Culture, History of Art, Medieval Archaeology, Textiles, History of Textiles, Syriac Studies, Dress and identity, Liturgical Studies, Syriac Christianity, Byzantine monasticism, Portraits, Byzantine art, Late Antiquity, Dress Studies, Fashion Studies, Design Analysis of a Weaving Loom, Liturgical Vestments, Islamic Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Institute of Byzantine Studies, Portraiture, Monasticism, Monastic Studies, Woven Textiles, Byzantine dress, Medieval and Byzantine Textile History and Research, Material culture in the medieval Mediterranean, Textiles (Islamic and post-Byzantine), Textile conservation, and BYZANTIUM AND THE WESTedit
- Jennifer Ball is Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of NY. She wo... moreJennifer Ball is Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of NY. She won the 2016 Claire Tow Distinguished Teaching Award. She publishes on Byzantine and Islamic textiles and dress, and portraits in Byzantine painting.edit
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This chapter examines Christian textiles, made between 200-600, and determined by their use. At first, Christian textiles were everyday textiles marked as Christian because they were used by and for Christians in ritual, in sacred spaces,... more
This chapter examines Christian textiles, made between 200-600, and determined by their use. At first, Christian textiles were everyday textiles marked as Christian because they were used by and for Christians in ritual, in sacred spaces, and on their bodies and in their homes. Beginning around the fourth century, Christians began to specially mark their textiles with Christian iconography, though not exclusively, as many textiles survive with ambiguous iconography or iconography which points to multiple traditions at once. Christian attitudes toward imagery and dress are examined, and it is argued that Christian imagery appears, according to literary sources, first on luxury clothing before it is found in churches. As few textiles survive, written sources are used as primary evidence in the essay alongside textile fragments, including discussion of the archaeology of textiles and how textiles were produced in the Early Christian period.
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Contributing author, Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles: An Online Scholarly Publication of the Dumbarton Oaks Textile Holdings. Gudrun Bühl and Elizabeth Dospĕl Williams, Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,... more
Contributing author, Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles: An Online Scholarly Publication of the Dumbarton Oaks Textile Holdings. Gudrun Bühl and Elizabeth Dospĕl Williams, Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2019.
