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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
2016.
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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.