Likeness and presence : a history of the image before the era of art / Hans Belting ; translated by Edmund Jephcott.
Author(s): Belting, Hans
Library Item Details
Main Title
Likeness and presence : a history of the image before the era of art / Hans Belting ; translated by Edmund Jephcott.
Author(s)
Belting, Hans
Collation
xxiv, 651 p. :
25 cm.
25 cm.
Variant Title
a history of the image before the era of art /
ISBN
0226042146
Dewey Class
704.9
Contents
Introduction -- The icon from a modern perspective and in light of its history -- Why images? : imagery and religion in late antiquity -- Heavenly images and earthly portraits : St. Luke's picture and "unpainted" originals in Rome and the Eastern Empire -- Roman funerary portraits and portraits of the saints -- The imperial image in antiquity and the problem of the Christian cult of images -- Image devotion, public relations, and theology at the end of antiquity -- Church and image : the doctrine of the church and iconoclasm -- The holy image in church decoration and a new policy of images - Pilgrims, emperors and confraternities : veneration of icons in Byzantium and Venice -- The "holy face" : legends and images in competition -- The iconostasis and the role of the icon in the liturgy and in private devotion -- "Living painting" : poetry and rhetoric in a new style of icons in the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- Statues, vessels, and signs : medieval images and relics in the West -- The icon in the civic life of Rome -- "In the Greek manner" : imported icons in the West -- Norm and freedom : Italian icons in the age of the Tuscan cities -- The madonnas of Siena : the image in urban life -- The dialogue with the image : the era of the private image at the end of the Middle Ages -- Religion and art ; the crisis of the image at the beginning of the modern age.
Subject
Christian art and symbolism
BRN
1677
Notes
- Translation of: Bild und Kult. Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-615) and indexes.
