Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean

Anthi Andronikou is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. A recipient of fellowships and awards from Princeton University, the British School at Rome, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Dranakis Prize, she has co-edited (with Peter Humfrey) The Pittas Collection:Mythological Paintings and Sculptures.

• 1. A prosopography of encounters; 2. Southern Italy, Cyprus and the Holy Land: a tale of parallel aesthetics?; 3. Deconstructing myths: transmutations of Madonna and Panagia between Italy and Cyprus; 4. Thomas Aquinas, the Dominicans and artistic patronage in trecento Cyprus; 5. The peregrinations of a Cypriot king in Italian material culture, 1362-1368; 6. Art in the interstices: hybrid Italian panels and Cypriot nobility.

'[This study] provides a highly thought-provoking analysis that will be of interest both to art historians and to scholars researching cross-cultural exchange during this era. It sheds light on matters as diverse as the cult of saints, crusading propaganda, commerce and international politics. More importantly, it describes a long-term trajectory for the development of 'Crusader Art' across Italy and many areas of the eastern Mediterranean that encompasses and informs a whole range of developments, whether artistic, political, military, commercial or cultural. Elegantly written and enriched with many colour photographs, it represents a major addition to scholarship in this field.' Nicholas Morton, Al-Masaq