Subtle bodies : representing angels in Byzantium /

Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought.

מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Peers, Glenn
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2001.
סדרה:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 32.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnv2w
תוכן הענינים:
  • Issues in Representing Angels
  • Arguments Against Images of Angels
  • Representing Angels: Images and Theory
  • The Veneration of Angels and Their Images
  • Apprehending the Archangel Michael.