| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 236 pages ) : illustrations (some color.) |
| Contents |
Late antique art and modernist vision / Sarah Bassett -- The other Hippocampus: neuroscience and early Christian art / John Onians -- Image and meta-image: Byzantine aesthetics and Orthodox faith / Anne Karahan -- Abstraction in late antique art / Bente Kiilerich -- The twelve-silver-column programme in the Martyrium Church in Jerusalem / Beat Brenk -- Defining space: abstraction, symbolism and allegory on display in early Byzantine art / Rainer Warland -- Architecture and the spheres of the univers in late antique art / Cecilia Olovsdotter -- Christus Verus Sol -- Christus Imperator: religious and imperial symbolism in the mosaics of the rotunda in Thessaloniki / Hjalmar Torp -- A "modern myth": the sixth-century starting date of the "Eastern" representation of Christ's ascension / Josef Engemann -- Symbolic aspects of the mosaics in the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha / Livia Bevilacqua |
| Summary |
It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives. In ten chapters, ten authors specialised in various fields of late-antique and Byzantine art explore the historiographical background of the 'spiritual' interpretation paradigm, neuroscientific and theological dimensions of Christian visual aesthetics, meanings and motive factors behind apparently wholly abstract and aniconic compositions, symbolic motifs and schemes for visualising cosmic order and the cosmic state of Christ, and the re-use of symbolic Greco-Roman themes in Christian contexts. The result is a multi-focal image of late antique abstraction and symbolism that illuminates the heterogeneity and complexity of the phenomena and of their study |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Christian art and symbolism -- To 500.
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Art, Byzantine.
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ART / History / General.
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Art, Byzantine
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Christian art and symbolism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olovsdotter, Cecilia, editor
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| ISBN |
9783110546507 |
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3110546507 |
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9783110546842 |
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3110546841 |
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