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Manipulating theophany : light and ritual in north Adriatic architecture (ca. 400-ca. 800) /

Using light as fil rouge reuniting theology and ritual with the architecture, decoration, and iconography of cultic spaces, the present study argues that the mise-en-scène of fifth-century baptism and sixth-century episcopal liturgy was meant to reproduce the luminous atmosphere of heaven. Analysin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ivanovici, Vladimir (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Colección:Ekstasis (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Paulinus of Nola and the new visual rhetoric of sanctity
  • Light in late antique baptismal theory and practice
  • Initiation and light theophanies in late antiquity
  • Christian bishops on reflecting the image of God at Baptism
  • Reproducing the divine light
  • The ambrosian tradition
  • Peter chrysologus and Baptism in fifth-century Ravenna
  • The orthodox Baptistery in Ravenna
  • The iconography
  • The Cupola's central scene
  • The ... xopó of the Apostles
  • The thrones and altars register
  • The level of the windows and of the Stucco Prophets
  • The floor level
  • Conclusion : encountering the divine in fifth-century Ravenna
  • The Archbishops' Chapel in Ravenna
  • Ravenna at the beginning of the sixth century
  • The Chapel and the orthodox Baptistery
  • The Architecture
  • The inscription
  • The iconography
  • The light
  • Conclusion
  • Light in the context of the Eucharistie liturgy
  • Ps.-Dionysius the areopagite
  • San vitale in Ravenna
  • Juliana Anicia and "Justinianic" churches
  • Sixth-century Ravenna and the Church of San Vitale
  • Venantius fortunatus and the Ravennate experience
  • The architecture
  • The orientation and openings
  • The decoration
  • The textures and colours
  • Metal paraphernalia and artificial lights
  • The figurative decoration
  • The liturgy
  • The new ritual mise-en-scène on the adriatic shores
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Excursus : the tempietto longobardo in Cividale
  • Between east and west
  • The tempietto
  • The use and meaning of light
  • Manipulating theophany on the eve of the carolingian renaissance
  • Bibliography
  • Index of persons
  • Index of places.