| #3604460 in Books | 2001-02-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.17 | File type: PDF | 250 pages||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent overview of Image Theory in Byzantium|By A Customer|Peers' does an excellent job in this endeavor of combining ecclesiastical texts with images. Much of the book poses the problem of how one represents an angel: a bodiless form. Since this was the foundation of the assault against images during Iconoclasm, Peers' framing of the problem within a specific context (the||"A most welcome book. . . . Peers's excellent study . . . provid[es] the reader with a satisfying account of the very real complexities of the Christian work of art."--Charles Barber, greekworks.com review|From the Inside Flap
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...
You easily download any file type for your device.Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) | Glenn Peers. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
