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The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice
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ISBN: 0520242874 0520243064 9780520243064 Year: 2005

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"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object-an image, a person, a time, a place-with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa, The Sacred Gaze discusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions how fear and disgust of images relate to one another and explains how scholars study the long and evolving histories of images as they pass from culture to culture. An intriguing strand of the narrative details how images have helped to shape popular conceptions of gender and masculinity. The opening chapter considers definitions of "visual culture" and how these relate to the traditional practice of art history. Amply illustrated with more than seventy images from diverse religious traditions, this masterful interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for everyone interested in how religious images and visual practice order space and time, communicate with the transcendent, and embody forms of communion with the divine. The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.Read less


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De bijl van Sint-Olav : op zoek naar Noorse kerkschatten in de Nederlanden
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ISBN: 9789462496545 9462496544 9789462496644 Year: 2021 Publisher: Zutphen Walburg Pers bv

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Te midden van een gewelddadige strijd om macht en religie vlucht in 1537 de laatste katholieke aartsbisschop van Noorwegen, Olav Engelbrektsson, naar de Nederlanden van Karel V. Op zijn vlucht neemt de kerkvorst een groot deel van de schat van de Nidaroskathedraal in Trondheim mee naar Deventer: de bijl van Sint-Olav, twee kronen, kelken, monstransen en andere kostbaarheden.00Dit boek volgt het spoor van de aartsbisschop, zijn gevolg en de kerkschatten. Een jarenlange zoektocht in archieven en musea levert een verrassend verhaal op over ballingschap, diplomatie en Noors erfgoed in de Habsburgse Nederlanden aan het begin van de Reformatie. Misschien geeft dit verhaal wel aanleiding tot nieuw archeologisch onderzoek naar Noors kerkzilver op de zeebodem.


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Fluid flesh : the body, religion and the visual arts : [symposium : Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography and Visual Studies]
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ISBN: 9789058677167 9058677168 9789058677 9789789058679 Year: 2008 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press


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Les stratégies de la narration dans la peinture médiévale : la représentation de l'Ancien Testament aux IVe-XIIe siècles
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ISBN: 9782503581712 2503581714 Year: 2020 Volume: 37 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Depuis les débuts de l’art chrétien, l’Ancien Testament a reçu une place singulière dans le décor des églises comme dans l’illustration des manuscrits. Certaines formules conçues aux IVe-Ve siècles se sont imposées durant tout le Moyen Âge, comme celles de Saint-Pierre de Rome, et une influence encore plus large a longtemps été attribuée à la Genèse Cotton ou à son modèle. Les oeuvres médiévales ne reproduisent toutefois presque jamais servilement celles qui les ont précédées. Les concepteurs les ont constamment réélaborées pour des raisons probablement multiples : adapter la composition au cadre imposé par l’architecture ou le découpage du folio, optimiser les ressorts de la narration pour en faciliter la lecture ou toucher plus efficacement la sensibilité du spectateur, enchaîner les scènes pour entraîner le regard dans le sens de la lecture ou relier sémantiquement deux épisodes voisins, induire un sens spécifique inspiré par la théologie ou la liturgie, ou encore exprimer visuellement des ambitions institutionnelles voire politiques. Les quinze articles réunis dans cet ouvrage développent ces questionnements en les appliquant à des ensembles peints ou en mosaïque représentatifs de la période envisagée : les oeuvres conservées ou perdues des premiers siècles, Saint-Pierre de Rome, Saint-Paul-hors-les-Murs et leurs avatars médiévaux, les bibles carolingiennes de Tours et celles de Ripoll, Galliano, les autres ensembles lombards, Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, Château-Gontier, Palerme et Monreale. Pour enrichir cette réflexion, le champ d’investigation a été étendu aux cycles néotestamentaires des églises médiobyzantines et aux mosaïques de Saint-Marc de Venise. Dans la conclusion, Herbert Kessler propose en effet une mise au point stimulante sur la délicate question de la Genèse Cotton en nuançant son influence sur le cycle vénitien. L’ouvrage offre ainsi un panorama très complet de la représentation de l’Ancien Testament et une réflexion foisonnante sur les stratégies de la narration.


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Treasure, memory, nature : Church objects in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9781912554614 1912554615 Year: 2020 Publisher: Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers,

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This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder. Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets d'?art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respectively. Philippe Cordez traces the rhetorical origination, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and functions of the memorial objects that constituted them. Such objects were a source of wonder for their contemporaries and remain so today, albeit for quite different reasons. Indeed, our fascination relates primarily to their epistemic and aesthetic qualities. Dealing also with these paradigm shifts, this study opens up new paths toward an archeology of current scholarly and museum practices. Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris.


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The viewer and the printed image in late medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9780754667629 0754667626 Year: 2010 Volume: *4 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

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David Areford offers a synthetic historical narrative of early prints that stresses their unusual material nature, as well as their accessibility to a variety of viewers, both lay and monastic. This volume represents a shift in the study of the early printed image, one that mirrors the widespread movement in art history away from issues of production, style, and the artist toward issues of reception, function, and the viewer. Areford's approach is intensely grounded in the object, especially the unacknowledged material complexity of the print as a portable, malleable, and accessible image that depended on a response that was not only visual but often physical, emotional, and psychological. Recognizing that early prints were not primarily designed for aesthetic appreciation, the author analyzes how their meanings stemmed from specific functions involving private devotion, protection, indulgences, the cult of saints, pilgrimage, exorcism, the art of memory, and anti-Semitic propaganda.

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