Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Noted scholars expand on issues related to perceptions on the use of images in works associated with the time frame of the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.
1:00 p.m.
The Destruction of Images in Eighth-Century Palestine
Robert Edwin Schick, Research Fellow, American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan
1:30 p.m.
Untidy History: The Cairo Geniza Documents and Inter-Confessional Contacts
Arnold E. Franklin, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College, The City University of New York
2:00 p.m.
Images in the Heartland and Images in the Southern Periphery of the Byzantine Empire
Gabriele Mietke, Curator for Byzantine Art, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
2:30 p.m.
Transmission of Images in the Mediterranean
Annie Labatt, Chester Dale Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
3:00 p.m.
New Interpretations of the Entrance Facade at Qasr al-Mshatta, Jordan
Claus-Peter Haase, Director Emeritus, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and Honorary Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin