Charles Barber

Professor, Medieval Art History

Contact

118 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

ph: 574.631.7686
e: cbarber@nd.edu

Degrees

Ph.D., Courtauld Institute, University of London

Biography

Barber's teaching interests include undergraduate lecture courses on all aspects of Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Art. His research interests include Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Barber has written extensively on theories of the image in Byzantium. His projects include the influence of Aristotelian thinking on 11th-century habits of viewing, publishing (with students) the Snite Museum's collection of Greek and Russian icons, examining the poetics of post-Byzantine painting, and the Apocalypse in the Greek tradition.

Personal Webpage

Video of Lecture: Saturday Scholar Series: "Before and Beyond Modernism: Icons as Art"

Recent Books

Reading Michael Psellos, edited by Charles Barber
Reading Michael Psellos, edited by Charles Barber and David Jenkins

Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm, by Charles Barber
Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm, by Charles Barber

Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics, edited by Charles Barber
Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics, edited by Charles Barber and David Jenkins

Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in 11th Century Byzantium, by Charles Barber
Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh Century Byzantium, by Charles Barber