Subtle bodies : representing angels in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.

Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought.

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Main Author: Peers, Glenn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Series:Transformation of the classical heritage ; 32.
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490 1 |a The transformation of the classical heritage ;  |v 32 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index. 
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520 8 |a Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought. 
505 0 |a Issues in Representing Angels -- Arguments Against Images of Angels -- Representing Angels: Images and Theory -- The Veneration of Angels and Their Images -- Apprehending the Archangel Michael. 
520 1 |a "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. He also provides an intriguing look at the history of angels as they emerged from the Hebrew Bible, moved into Judaism and early Christianity, and finally were given shape and form.". 
520 8 |a "Peers makes excellent use of primary sources in considering this intellectually challenging question. He looks at icons of angels, saints' lives, legends and hagiographic narratives of angelic apparitions, the writings of Greek church fathers, and other texts to show how strategies were devised to cope with these representational difficulties. Many of these sources have never been brought together into one account, and Peers elicits novel and striking connections across the texts, as well as between the texts and images." "Peers brings to bear modern approaches - including Michael Foucault's ideas concerning Rene Magritte - on questions of representation in Byzantium. In showing how this culture sought to represent the unrepresentable, Peers sheds much light on early Christian theology, aesthetics, and popular devotion as he unravels the complex interplay among biblical texts, theological thought, church doctrine, and artistic creativity."--BOOK JACKET. 
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