Subtle Bodies : Representing Angels in Byzantium /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peers, Glenn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Église orthodoxe > Histoire.
Orthodox Eastern Church > Byzantine Empire > History.
Iconoclasm.
Church history > Middle Ages.
Angels in literature.
Angels in art.
Angels > Biblical teaching.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Angelology & Demonology.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Anges dans la litterature.
Anges dans l'art.
Anges > Enseignement biblique.
Iconoclasme > Empire byzantin.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Iconoclasm > Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (250 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520925137

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