Subtle Bodies
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aesthetics
ancient world
angels
angels in art
angels in literature
archangel
art
Author_Glenn Peers
barberini diptych
bible
bodies
byzantine art
byzantium
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cherub
cherubim
church doctrine
divinity
early christian theology
early church
embodiment
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folk belief
folk religion
greece
hagiography
hellenism
iconoclasm
icons
literature
madonna
magritte
michael
middle ages
religion
religious practices
saints
saints legends
saints lives
sarcophagus
theology
unrepresentable
virgin and child
Product details
- ISBN 9780520224056
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
