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Book Medieval Practices of Space

Download or read book Medieval Practices of Space written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world.

Book Light and Colour in Byzantine Art

Download or read book Light and Colour in Byzantine Art written by Liz James and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to investigate the place of color in Byzantine art. By engaging the issue on both a technical level--how colors were made, what colors were available--and a perceptual level--how these colors were seen and described--James offers a new approach to the study of color in art history. Including sixty-four color illustrations, most never before published, James's study offers a unique view of the details of Byzantine art.

Book Augustine and the Catechumenate

Download or read book Augustine and the Catechumenate written by William Harmless and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most influential thinkers in Christian history, St. Augustine (354–430) had a flair for teaching and meditated deeply on the mysteries of the human heart. This study examines a little-known side of his career: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism. ln the revised edition of this seminal book, both the text and notes have been revised to better reflect the state of contemporary scholarship on Augustine, liturgical studies, and the catechumenate, both ancient and modern. This edition also includes new findings from some of the recently discovered sermons of Augustine and incorporates new perspectives from recent research on early Christian biblical interpretation, debates on the Trinity, the evolution of the liturgy, and much more. This reconstruction of Augustine’s catechumenate provides fresh perspectives on the day-to-day life of the early church and on the vibrancy and eloquence of Augustine the preacher and teacher.

Book Byzantine Mosaic Decoration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Otto Demus
  • Publisher : Acls History E-Book Project
  • Release : 2006-02-01
  • ISBN : 9781597402781
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Byzantine Mosaic Decoration written by Otto Demus and published by Acls History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pseudo-Dionysius
  • Publisher : Digireads.com
  • Release : 2021-07-06
  • ISBN : 9781420973587
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Complete Works written by Pseudo-Dionysius and published by Digireads.com. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "Corpus Areopagiticum", this collection of works was falsely attributed by its author as being written by Dionysius the Areopagite, a first century AD Athenian convert of Paul the Apostle mentioned in Acts 17:34. Because of this erroneous attribution great attention was given by early Christian scholars, most notably the late 13th and early 14th century scholar Meister Eckhart. Sometime in the 15th century it came to light that this collection of works was most likely the work of some anonymous late 5th or early 6th century author, who has subsequently been referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius. While this reattribution has diminished the "Corpus Areopagiticum" importance in Christian literature the collection still holds an important interest among scholars because of a renewed interest in the huge impact of Dionysian thought on later Christian thought. Included in this collection is the complete "Corpus Areopagiticum", which includes the following individual works: "Divine Names", "Mystic Theology", "Heavenly Hierarchy", "Ecclesiastical Hierarchy", and "Letters of Dionysius the Areopagite". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translations of John Parker.

Book The Sensual Icon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bissera V. Pentcheva
  • Publisher : Penn State University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780271035833
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Sensual Icon written by Bissera V. Pentcheva and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance.

Book New Perspectives in Iconology

Download or read book New Perspectives in Iconology written by Barbara Baert and published by ASP Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors investigate how iconology as a field and method, which originated within art history, relates to recent developments in the Humanities such as Anthropology and Visual Studies. The main questions are: How has iconology evolved in the past decennia, could it incorporate Anthropology and Visual Studies towards a new science of images? How have new disciplines profited from iconology and how can they in turn inspire and/or reinvent iconology? These questions are addressed within a wide historical andgeographical scope, as we regard the tracing of pictorial meaning throughout time and space an essential characteristic of iconology.

Book Aesthetics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
  • Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
  • Release : 1998-11-09
  • ISBN : 9780631205944
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Aesthetics written by Carolyn Korsmeyer and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present. Aesthetics has also been the subject of a number of theoretical challenges that investigate the conceptual frameworks customarily assumed by theories of art. This collection of essays assembles classic and contemporary texts to present both the tradition of aesthetic theory and the kinds of questions and challenges that it confronts today, both from other cultural traditions and from theoretical movements such as feminism and postmodernism.

Book Reading Medieval Images

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  • Author : Elizabeth Sears
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780472067510
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Reading Medieval Images written by Elizabeth Sears and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary approaches to analyzing art as applied to medieval works

Book Approaching the Holy Mountain

Download or read book Approaching the Holy Mountain written by Sharon E. J. Gerstel and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai in its full historical, art historical, and religious dimensions, the nineteen collected essays in Approaching the Holy Mountain provide a unique view of the longest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. As an important pilgrimage site, Sinai enjoyed an international reputation in the Middle Ages. The monastery also benefited from regional connections to Egypt and the Holy Land. The essays in this volume examine the pilgrims, monks, artists, builders, and scholars who came to the mountain and left their marks on the monastery and its holdings, as well as the image of the monastery that was promoted outside of Sinai. Because of its dry, isolated location in the Sinai desert, the monastery possesses the world's greatest collection of Byzantine icons. These icons have been celebrated in highly popular exhibitions in Athens, London, St Petersburg, New York, and Los Angeles, few longer studies of the icons have been attempted. In this volume authors investigate icons from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries and offer new interpretations of their meaning, provenance, and function. Essays also explore celebrated illuminated Byzantine manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's, pilgrim's accounts of the monastery, a recently excavated early church on the summit of Mt Sinai, liturgy at Sinai during the first Christian millennium, the influence of Sinai on later paintings and engravings, and the recent history of Sinai studies. The result is a significant advance in our understanding of one of the most important centres of early Christianity.

Book Icon and Word

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  • Author : Robin Cormack
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780754635499
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Icon and Word written by Robin Cormack and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the essays that comprise this work were written by students of Robin Cormack. They focus upon Byzantine icons and images but consider these artefacts in a way that will promote a very different approach to the study of Byzantine art.

Book Chaldean Breviary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Bedjan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-04-04
  • ISBN : 9781607248170
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Chaldean Breviary written by Paul Bedjan and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Devotion by Design

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  • Author : Scott Nethersole
  • Publisher : National Gallery London Publications
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781857095258
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Devotion by Design written by Scott Nethersole and published by National Gallery London Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of works chiefly from the collection of the National Gallery, London, held there, July 6-Oct. 2, 2011.

Book The Gothic Cathedral

    Book Details:
  • Author : Otto Von Simson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Gothic Cathedral written by Otto Von Simson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: