Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament both as decorative device and compositional strategy across artistic media and genres0Interestingly the inventive elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting para…
Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres.0Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting…
Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting…
Heutzutage bevölkern Monster aller Art viele Szenerien in Literatur, Film, Kunst und Werbung. Das Spektrum reicht von Aliens über Krümelmonster bis zu Zombies. Das war im Mittelalter nicht anders. Auch dort begegnet man den Monstern allenthalben etwa an Kirchenportalen, auf Kapi…
"In Part I, David Williams traces the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology and philosophy, particularly Pseudo-Dionysius's negative theology and his central idea that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. Williams argues…
In Part I, David Williams traces the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology and philosophy, particularly Pseudo-Dionysius's negative theology and his central idea that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. Williams argues …