Subtle bodies: representing angels in byzantium
Auteur :
Peers, Glenn
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520224056
Date de publication :
14 févr. 2001
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
544 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.