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Envisioning worlds in late antique art
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ISBN: 3110546507 3110546841 9783110546507 9783110546842 9783110543742 3110543745 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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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.


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Birgittinerna och deras bilder : en studie av bild, rum och betraktare i Vadstena klosterkyrka omkring år 1500
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Uppsala, Sweden : Kriterium,

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This study investigates the pictorial world of the medieval Vadstena Abbey church. The interior of the church was filled with altars and images that had the three separated groups of viewers in mind: the 60 nuns, the 25 conventual brothers and the numerous pilgrims coming to visit the shrine of Saint Birgitta. The pilgrims faced a pictorial message where the role of saint Birgitta was emphasized, but still one among all the other saints. The images directed to the nuns and the brothers accentuated the role of the Virgin Mary as the exemplarily follower of Christ. Furthermore, all the church interior was furnished to enhance the position of the nuns, i.e. that this monastic foundation was made primarily for women. Birgittinerna och deras bilder lägger fram resultat från flera forskningsprojekt om det senmedeltida klostret i Vadstena av konstvetaren Eva Lindqvist Sandgren. Det presenterade materialet grundar sig på studier om nunnornas boktillverkning och deras textilproduktion, samt en undersökning av de skilda bildsfärer som olika kyrkobesökare/brukare kunde ta del av (eller var utestängda från) genom kyrkorummets uppdelning i tre tydligt separerade rumsliga enheter: nunnornas upphöjda och inhägnade korläktare, klosterbrödernas kor och läktargångar samt lekfolkets kringgärdade yta i mitten av det stora kyrkorummet. Författaren använder sig av ett material som spänner från stort till smått, från kyrkans kalkstensmurar och ända ned till stygnnivå i broderierna.


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Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Perlego ; : Project Gutenberg,

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îles de la mémoire : Fabrique des images et écriture de l'histoire dans les églises du lac Tana, Éthiopie, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne,

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Les îles du lac Ṭānā, réservoir du Nil bleu situé sur les hauts plateaux du nord de l'Éthiopie, abritent depuis le xiiie siècle ermites et communautés monastiques. Lorsque, au cours du xviie siècle, les rois d'Éthiopie établissent leur capitale à Gondar, quelque soixante kilomètres plus au nord, ces hommes de Dieu se retrouvent dès lors aux portes du pouvoir politique. Tantôt refuges lors des guerres ou des troubles internes au royaume, tantôt sanctuaires des dépouilles des souverains et de la légitimité royale, ces lieux saints deviennent le foyer de production d'une histoire écrite et ré-écrite pour compléter ou s'opposer à l'historiographie officielle des souverains. Une historiographie qui voisine souvent le mythe, celui de l'Arche d'alliance ou celui de la Fuite de la Sainte Famille. Cet ouvrage, le premier à proposer une analyse historique de l'art éthiopien des xviie et xviiie siècles à travers nombre de documents inédits - images, chroniques, chartes et documents fonciers -, étudie la construction de bâtiments civils ou ecclésiaux, les chantiers de décoration monumentaux, la mise en pages des cycles d'enluminures et la constitution des bibliothèques. Cette histoire des lieux, des objets et des peintures du lac Ṭānā met de comprendre l'héritage culturel et les connaissances historiques sur lesquels s'appuient les commandes artistiques comme l'action politique des rois aux xviie et xviiie siècles. Entre conflits de récits, revendications foncières et patronage artistique, l'auteur dégage des strates successives de l'écriture de l'histoire du royaume, de la fabrication des images, enluminures et fresques d'églises, et la construction d'une mémoire royale.


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Chapter Claudio Magris e il mondo nordico. Uno scambio fecondo
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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The current article is aimed to outline a first review of the solid relationship of Claudio Magris with the Nordic world, both from the perspective of his reception in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and from the study of his fecund encounter with the works of authors like Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Herman Bang and others. These authors, whose works were partially translated by Magris, eventually played a meaningful role in his own writing. Besides affirming himself as a relevant voice in the Scandinavian context, his work as a mediator for Nordic literature has made him a reference point for Scandinavian studies in our country.


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Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism : With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols
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Year: 1875 Publisher: New York : J.W. Bouton,

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The Reformation and the visual arts
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ISBN: 1134921039 1280069503 020341425X 0203314956 9780203314951 9780203414255 9780415065122 0415065127 0203722493 9780203722497 9781280069505 9781134921027 1134921020 9781134920983 1134920989 9781134921034 9780415514842 Year: 1993 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Covering a vast geographical and chronological span, and bringing new and exciting material to light, The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overview of religious images and iconoclasm, starting with the consequences of the Byzantine image controversy and ending with the Eastern Orthodox churches of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the image question played a large role in the divisions within European Protestantism and was intricately connected with the Eucharist controversy. He analyses the positions of the major Protestant reformers - Luther, Zwingli,

Art and architecture of late medieval pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles : texts
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ISBN: 1280906960 9786610906963 1429427795 9781429427791 6610906963 9004123326 9789004123328 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Iconography beyond the crossroads
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ISBN: 0271093013 9780271093017 Year: 2022 Publisher: University Park

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This volume assesses how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, both in their own time and in the modern world.Framed by critical essays that apply explicitly historiographical and sociopolitical perspectives to key moments in the evolution of the field, the volume’s case studies focus on how iconographic meaning is shaped by factors such as medieval modes of dialectical thought, the problem of representing time, the movement of the viewer in space, the fragmentation and injury of both image and subject, and the complex strategy of comparing distant cultural paradigms. The contributions are linked by a commitment to understanding how medieval images made meaning; to highlighting the heuristic value of new perspectives and methods in exploring the work of the image in both the Middle Ages and our own time; and to recognizing how subtle entanglements between scholarship and society can provoke mutual and unexpected transformations in both. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the expansiveness, flexibility, and dynamism of iconographic studies as a scholarly field that is still heartily engaged in the challenge of its own remaking.Along with the volume editors, the contributors include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey, Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.


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Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : Devotion and Iconography
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,

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This reprint aims to investigate some of the numerous ways in which Christianity venerated and represented the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Fifteen researchers in various areas of the Arts and Humanities have brought together here their efforts to address in part this inexhaustible objective. The reprint is divided into two main parts. In one of them, composed of six chapters, we study some of the several ways in which the Christian faithful rendered worship and devotion to the Virgin Mary during the more than one thousand years under consideration. The other part, made up of seven chapters, analyzes various iconographic manifestations through which medieval and Renaissance Christians made their devotion to the mother of Christ visible in pictorial or sculptural forms. Therefore, this reprint will be very useful not only for specialists in Christian studies, especially in Marian themes but also for those interested in the development of the societies and cultures of medieval and Renaissance Europe.

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