This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that…
"The nature of the icon cannot be grasped by means of pure art criticism, nor by the adoption of a sentimental point of view. Its forms are based on the wisdom contained in the theological and liturgical writings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and are imtimately bound up with th…
"The nature of the icon cannot be grasped by means of pure art criticism, nor by the adoption of a sentimental point of view. Its forms are based on the wisdom contained in the theological and liturgical writings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and are imtimately bound up with th…
"A collection of essays by leading medievalists assessing the challenges, and potential, of current approaches to iconography and iconology"--.
The 13 essays in 'Judaism and Christian Art' reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism that it produces.
Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian represen…
This text provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the grounds for a new interdisciplinary study of the images, in the arts, humanities and beyond.
This text provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the grounds for a new interdisciplinary study of the images, in the arts, humanities and beyond.
