PLOTINUS·AND·THE·ORIGINS OF·MEDIEVAL·AESTHETICS

André Grabar (1896–1990), born in Russia, was one of the most important art historians of the twentieth century. Focusing most of his life-work on the artistic manifestations of the Byzantine sphere, he also wrote major contributions on Western medieval art. Within his vast bibliography, two of his most famous monographs surely remain L’iconoclasme byzantin (1957) and his Christian Iconography, A Study of Its Origins (1968).

Adrien Palladino is assistant professor at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno, at the Center for Early Medieval Studies. His interests include the history of art history, as well as the study of late antique and early medieval material cultures, with a special interest in the interaction between objects, stories, spaces, and people.