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Tracing the life and work of Nikodim Kondakov, a pioneer in the field of late Antiquity and Byzantium in eastern Europe, this biography is a true tale of adventure. It follows the complicated and challenging events in Kondakov’s life before and after the Russian Revolution, from his humble beginnings to his university studies and analyzes his inspired creation of an innovative and precocious study of art history in Russia. From a brilliant and successful career to the trauma endured during the Russian Revolution, the story becomes one of wandering and dependence; nevertheless, and in spite of the shift in history and in his own life, Kondakov’s studies sketch a vast geography of Late Antique and medieval culture from the Mediterranean to the Urals. The work approaches distant horizons, giving a glimpse of the migrations from Asia and the inception of medieval Europe with its Christian values; and it travels the paths of history along trails marked by artifacts and monuments. Reconstructing the personal and existential events in Nikodim Kondakov’s life contributes to the understanding of a critical phase in the founding of art history and, more broadly, the histories of Russia and of the countries the scholar traversed during a long life filled with tribulations.

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Direzione scientifica Carmelo Alberti (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italia) Michela Agazzi (Co-Direttore) (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italia) Comitato scientifico Michela Agazzi (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italia) Hans Aurenhammer (Universität Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland) Xavier Barral i Altet (Université de Renne 2, France) Quest'opera è distribuita con Licenza Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution alone Internazionale This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution alone International

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Layout design / Monika Kučerová Cover design / Petr M. Vronský, Anna Kelblová Publisher / Masarykova univerzita, Žerotínovo nám. 9, 601 77 Brno, IČO 00216224 Editorial Office / Seminář dějin umění, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno Print / Tiskárna Didot, spol s r.o.,

The European Fortune of the Roman Veronica in the Middle Ages (Convivium Supplementum, 2), 2017

Veronica, Holy Face, Passion of Christ, Second Coming, beatific vision, votive Mass

Convivium: Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Seminarium Kondakovianum, Series Nova. 1.2., 2014

A miniature eulogia token in the collection of the British Museum was originally listed in the register as depicting Christ's Ascension into Heaven, yet its composition incorporated features that evoke images of the Adored Christ. This paper analyses the iconography on a number of comparable Late Antique pilgrimage eulogia produced in the Levant, revealing that this unique token would more accurately be defined as the Adoration of Christ in Majesty. The token also provides evidence of the prophylactic and apotropaic properties attributed to blessings of holy soil from sacred sites. The unusual composition of the artefact considered here offers a rare insight into the developing iconography displayed on Late Antique pilgrimage eulogia.

Byzantium, Russia and Europe. Meeting and Construction of Worlds, Opuscula Historiae Artium (Supplementum), 2013

«Convivium», VI/2 (2019), pp. 46-59, 2019

Layout design / Monika Kučerová Cover design / Petr M. Vronský, Anna Kelblová Publisher / Masarykova univerzita, Žerotínovo nám. 9, 601 77 Brno, IČO 00216224 Editorial Office / Seminář dějin umění, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno Print / Tiskárna Didot, spol s r.o.,

Cover design / Petr M. Vronský Publisher / Masarykova univerzita, Žerotínovo nám. 9, 601 77 Brno, IČO 00216224 Editorial Office / Seminář dějin umění, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno Print / Tiskárna Didot, spol s r.o.,