...Svetlana Rakić Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Svetlana Rakić is associate professor of art at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana. She is the author of several books on Serbian Orthodox icons and the interrelatedness of modern art and religious thought. She worked as a consultant...

...David Binder Svetlana Rakic: Serbian Icons from Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century . New York: A. Pankovich Publishers, 2000. 294 pages. ISBN 0-9672101-2-7. $125.00. David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the New York Times . Mediterranean...

... in the region. It is recommended to specialists and to Lebanon experts, although the style of the book is such that people with no prior knowledge of the subject can also find enjoyment from it. Svetlana Rakic: Serbian Icons from Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sixteenth...

... and his rivals in the region. It is recommended to specialists and to Lebanon experts, although the style of the book is such that people with no prior knowledge of the subject can also find enjoyment from it. Svetlana Rakic: Serbian Icons...

... pushing the country toward a new “Hellenic” identity. In the shadow of these macropolitical events, several shepherds from the Naxiote vil- lage of Koronos began to have dreams and visions of the Madonna, in which she urged them to search for a buried icon depicting her image and to build a new...

... of dozens of building maps, drawings, and photographs (in both color and black and white) of mosaics, icons, statues, and other important pieces of art that show the Byzantine original and the recycled Venetian version — all fascinatingly juxtaposed. Fabio Barry’s absorbing first chapter, “Ranieri...

... because of the content but also because of the presentation throughout the book of dozens of building maps, drawings, and photographs (in both color and black and white) of mosaics, icons, statues, and other important pieces of art that show the Byzantine original and the recycled Venetian version...

...) of mosaics, icons, statues, and other important pieces of art that show the Byzantine original and the recycled Venetian version — all fascinatingly juxtaposed. Fabio Barry’s absorbing first chapter, “Ranieri Zeno, the Imitation of Constantinople, the Spolia Style and Justice at San Marco,” maps out...

... of violence and dehumanization of an entire race for more than four hundred years, one wonders whether Obama can indeed sus- tain his image as the agent of change and affirm that the United States finally is living up to its credo, or whether he will be transformed into a mosaic icon, painted by social...

.... On the one hand were the shadows cast by mountain Ainos, with the ruins of the shrines of Zeus, Apollon, Athena, and Pan, and on the other were the shades coming from the monastery of St. Gerasimos, with its church bells, festivals, and icons. He explains in the prologue to the book the conflict within...

... of the shrines of Zeus, Apollon, Athena, and Pan, and on the other were the shades coming from the monastery of St. Gerasimos, with its church bells, festivals, and icons. He explains in the prologue to the book the conflict within this tradition and in his inner soul: The ideal of what Greece...

... all reason,” according to Plutarch. But such iconic status as Alexander would enjoy through the centuries was also beyond all reason in that exaggerated mythic realm reserved for many of imperialism’s apologists from the Hellenic era to the seminars on the Roman Empire held in the Pentagon...

... all reason,” according to Plutarch. But such iconic status as Alexander would enjoy through the centuries was also beyond all reason in that exaggerated mythic realm reserved for many of imperialism’s apologists from the Hellenic era to the seminars on the Roman Empire held in the Pentagon...

... and adolescence of the new American repub- lic), who somehow managed to become icons of their nation without benefit of domestic policy advisers, media consultants, focus groups, political action committees, speech-writing teams, and Washington think tanks. Pranger: The Iraq Problem...

... in the Medi- terranean and will station forces there for the foreseeable future. The United States has played an active role in problem solving in the Mediterranean area for more than fifty years, and some of the most iconic US foreign policy programs, the Marshall Plan, for example, started...

... domestic politics in the feud between King Constantine and the iconic Eleutherios Venizelos. From the late planning among the Allied powers in Reviews  125 the war through the Versailles Peace Conference in early 1919 and Treaty of Sèvres sol...

... between King Constantine and the iconic Eleutherios Venizelos. From the late planning among the Allied powers in Reviews  125 the war through the Versailles Peace Conference in early 1919 and Treaty of Sèvres sol- emnly signed by Turkey...

... chauvinism” and “profound religious fanaticism,” desecrating icons and defecating and urinating on altars. They mocked, beat, and circumcised clerics. They exhumed and knifed the dead in the cemeteries, behaving like barbarians. The costs of this destruction were enormous, and the Turkish...

...-five hundred businesses and thirty-five hundred homes; they wrecked about 90 percent of the Greek churches, showing off their “fervid chauvinism” and “profound religious fanaticism,” desecrating icons and defecating and urinating on altars. They mocked, beat, and circumcised clerics. They exhumed...

... country and contrast it with the type of closed society that extremists want. We saw it in Afghanistan — a society where women weren’t allowed to work even if their husbands had died, where little girls weren’t allowed to go to school, where music was banned, where cultural icons were destroyed...