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Subtle Bodies
Representing Angels in Byzantium
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Glenn Peers
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English
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2001
About this book
Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in general.
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Peers Glenn :
Glenn Peers is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. He collaborated with Massimo Bernabo and Rita Tarasconi on Il Fisiologo di Smirne (1998), and he is completing a study on framing in Byzantine art.
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February 14, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780520925137
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250
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9780520925137
Keywords for this book
byzantium; religion; bodies; literature; icons; angels; embodiment; saints; divinity; saints lives; saints legends; hagiography; early church; ancient world; hellenism; greece; early christian theology; aesthetics; folk religion; folk belief; religious practices; theology; church doctrine; unrepresentable; bible; byzantine art; cherubim; cherub; iconoclasm; middle ages; archangel; michael; angels in art; angels in literature; barberini diptych; sarcophagus; madonna; virgin and child; magritte; art
