Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Subtle Bodies 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 14 February 2001
- Format: Hardback 250 pages
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- Categories: Art History | Art History: Ancient & Classical BCE to c 500 CE | Art History: Byzantine & Medieval c 500 CE to c 1400 | Religious Subjects Depicted In Art | Christian Theology
- ISBN 13: 9780520224056 ISBN 10: 0520224051
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Full description for Subtle Bodies
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.
