Benjamin Anderson, Cornell University

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Assistant Professor Ithaca, New York bwa32@cornell.edu

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Byzantine architecture Byzantine art Early medieval art Medieval architecture of Anatolia Urban history of Constantinople

Bio/Research

I study the visual and material cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent landmasses, with a particular focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. My first book, Cosmos and community in early medieval art (forthcoming from Yale University Press), analyzes the reception of ...

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Bio/Research

I study the visual and material cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent landmasses, with a particular focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. My first book, Cosmos and community in early medieval art (forthcoming from Yale University Press), analyzes the reception of ancient techniques for imaging the cosmos. The second, Image as oracle from Byzantium to the Baroque, will address the invention of the image of the future and its consequences. In addition to those larger projects, I maintain active interests in the efficacy of forms, non-professional interpreters of ancient art, the urban history of Constantinople, and the later medieval architecture of Anatolia.

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