Crusader art manifests the conceptions of the crusaders in their newly founded kingdom, and at the same time reflects its contacts with artistic traditions of both the west and the byzantine east, as well as with local artistic traditions existing in the Holy Land since early Christian times.

This class wishes to study Crusader art in light of its patrons, and examine how it can be understood as manifesting the attitudes and intentions of the many forces which were active in the Latin Kingdom: The kings and queens, the Patriarch and Bishops, the military orders (mainly Hospitalers and Templars) and the eastern-Christians. This will be done as a comparative study with the iconographical, formal and stylistic sources of Crusader art in the west, Byzantium, Muslim and Early Christian Art.

The class will study, among others, the Crusader art and architecture of Jerusalem, primarily in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher but also in the church of Santa Anne, The tomb of the Virgin in the valley of Jehoshaphat, the Church of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, and others. The sculptural cycles of the church of the Annunciation at Nazareth and the church Saint John the Baptist at Sebaste, and the frescoes and mosaic cycles of the church of Nativity at Bethlehem and church of the Resurrection at Abu-Gosh will also be studied.       

This class wishes to study Crusader art in light of its patrons, and examine how it can be understood as manifesting the attitudes and intentions of the many forces which were active in the Latin Kingdom: The kings and queens, the Patriarch and Bishops, the military orders (mainly Hospitalers and Templars) and the eastern-Christians. This will be done as a comparative study with the iconographical, formal and stylistic sources of Crusader art in the west, Byzantium, Muslim and Early Christian Art.

The class will study, among others, the Crusader art and architecture of Jerusalem, primarily in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher but also in the church of Santa Anne, The tomb of the Virgin in the valley of Jehoshaphat, the Church of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, and others. The sculptural cycles of the church of the Annunciation at Nazareth and the church Saint John the Baptist at Sebaste, and the frescoes and mosaic cycles of the church of Nativity at Bethlehem and church of the Resurrection at Abu-Gosh will also be studied.