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Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium

Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium

Peers, Glenn

Hardcover

Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage, Book 32

Art HistoryGeneral ArtGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0520224051
ISBN13: 9780520224056
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 14 2001
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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