- Department of Art History
100 Dodd Hall
UCLA
405 N. Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095 - 310-206-8981 (office)
Sharon Gerstel
University of California, Los Angeles, Art History, Faculty Member
- Landscape Archaeology, Ethnography of Early Modern Greece, Medieval Peasantry, Byzantine Art, Archaeology, Social History, Byzantine Archaeology, Art History, and 18 moreByzantine Studies, Architectural Ceramics And Tiles Of 19th & 20th C, Peloponnese in the Middle Ages, Medieval Greece, Byzantine ceramics, Crusader Art, Frankish Morea, Lay Piety, Thessalonike Topography, Medieval Encaustic Tiles, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Art, Medieval Women, Byzantine art, Late Antiquity, St.Michael's Column, Byzantine Sigillography, and Pavement Mosaicsedit
- SHARON E. J. GERSTEL is Director of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and... moreSHARON E. J. GERSTEL is Director of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gerstel is a widely published author, whose books include Beholding the Sacred Mysteries (1999) and Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology and Ethnography (2015). The latter was awarded the 2016 Runciman Prize by the Anglo-Hellenic League, the inaugural book prize by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), and the Maria Theocharis Prize by the Christian Archaeological Society in Greece. Her current research focuses on the intersection of music, architecture, and monumental decoration.edit
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In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in... more
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in order to provide objective and phenomenological accounts of how sound—both chanted and spoken—was produced and received. Framing the soundscape of each church through an examination of its original shape, furnishings , decoration, liturgy, music, acoustics, and psychoacoustics raises new questions about ties between the two buildings and the streets that connected them. This study also deepens our understanding of the archaeoacoustics of Thessaloniki's early churches.
Copyright © American School of Classical Studies at Athens, originally published in Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 177–213. This offprint is supplied for personal, non-commercial use only, and reflects the definitive electronic version of the article, found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.87.1.0177.
Copyright © American School of Classical Studies at Athens, originally published in Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 177–213. This offprint is supplied for personal, non-commercial use only, and reflects the definitive electronic version of the article, found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.87.1.0177.
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Were Byzantine writings about the intermingling of human and angelic voices within ecclesiastical settings merely reflections of mystical theology, or were they actual observations about the movement of sound? Focusing on Thessaloniki, we... more
Were Byzantine writings about the intermingling of human and angelic voices within ecclesiastical settings merely reflections of mystical theology, or were they actual observations about the movement of sound? Focusing on Thessaloniki, we consider how Byzantine writers described the voices of angels, how certain chants in the divine services animated the voices of celestial beings, and how and where painters represented angels, particularly within the city's monastic churches. We then turn to the study of the acoustical property of reverberation in eight Byzantine churches in the city in order to investigate whether undefined voices heard by subjective listening could be documented by objective, scientific testing.
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in... more
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in order to provide objective and phenomenological accounts of how sound—both chanted and spoken—was produced and received. Framing the soundscape of each church through an examination of its original shape, furnishings , decoration, liturgy, music, acoustics, and psychoacoustics raises new questions about ties between the two buildings and the streets that connected them. This study also deepens our understanding of the archaeoacoustics of Thessaloniki's early churches.
Copyright © American School of Classical Studies at Athens, originally published in Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 177-213. The definitive electronic version of the article is found at <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.87.1.0177>.
Copyright © American School of Classical Studies at Athens, originally published in Hesperia 87 (2018), pp. 177-213. The definitive electronic version of the article is found at <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.87.1.0177>.
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Page 1. BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES 395 woman's name in late antique Egypt), over thirty pages of maps and photo-graphs, and a full bibliography. For its sheer wealth of information as well as its imaginative reconstructions ...
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Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages is an art history series from Brepols, edited by Kathryn A. Smith (New York University). The editorial board consists of Adam S. Cohen (University of Toronto) and Sharon E. J. Gerstel... more
Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages is an art history series from Brepols, edited by Kathryn A. Smith (New York University). The editorial board consists of Adam S. Cohen (University of Toronto) and Sharon E. J. Gerstel (University of California, Los Angeles). This book series is dedicated to publishing innovative interdisciplinary work on art, architecture, and visual culture from late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Monographs, thematic studies, multi-author essay collections, and investigations that take a cross-cultural perspective on any aspect of western medieval, Byzantine, Jewish, and Islamic visual and material culture are welcome.
Contact: Johan Van der Beke at Johan.VanderBeke@brepols.net; or Kathryn A. Smith, New York University, Department of Art History, at kathryn.smith@nyu.edu.
For volumes published in the series or in contract, see the attached list.
Contact: Johan Van der Beke at Johan.VanderBeke@brepols.net; or Kathryn A. Smith, New York University, Department of Art History, at kathryn.smith@nyu.edu.
For volumes published in the series or in contract, see the attached list.