Subtle Bodies
Glenn Peers
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University of California Press
Sachbuch / Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike
Beschreibung
Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in general.
Kundenbewertungen
church doctrine, byzantine art, folk belief, greece, angels in literature, hagiography, bible, art, virgin and child, angels in art, divinity, cherubim, aesthetics, barberini diptych, early christian theology, religion, religious practices, ancient world, madonna, michael, saints lives, sarcophagus, bodies, literature, angels, iconoclasm, middle ages, magritte, theology, embodiment, archangel, early church, hellenism, icons, saints, saints legends, cherub, byzantium, folk religion, unrepresentable