Painting in the Shadow: Hidden Writing and Images in Manuscripts and Portraits (Boethius, Cassiodorus, Justinian, Theodora, Theodoric)

by Fabio Troncarelli

The almost invisible images of a hitherto unknown painter called Eusebius, who worked in San Vitale Ravenna and in Vivarium, are a gallery of portraits of his famous contemporaries such as Theodoric, Vitiges, Amalasunta and a visual commentary of Justinian's tyrannical behaviour. Living between two ages, without belonging to either this solitary man, who was born an Arian but died a Catholic, at once both Goth and Roman Latin, represents the fullest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3847116258
• ISBN13: 9783847116257
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 261 Pages