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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453546703321

Autore

Barber Charles <1964->

Titolo

Contesting the logic of painting [[electronic resource] ] : art and understanding in eleventh-century Byzantium / / by Charles Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93989-7

9786611939892

90-474-3161-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Visualising the Middle Ages, , 1874-0448 ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

704.9/48209495

Soggetti

Icons, Byzantine

Image (Theology)

Electronic books.

Byzantine Empire Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / C.E. Barber -- Chapter One. The Synodikon Of Orthodoxy And The Ground Of Painting / C.E. Barber -- Chapter Two. Symeon The New Theologian: Seeing Beyond Painting / C.E. Barber -- Chapter Three. Michael Psellos: Seeing Through Painting / C.E. Barber -- Chapter Four. Eustratios Of Nicaea And The Constraints Of Theology / C.E. Barber -- Chapter Five. Leo Of Chalcedon, Euthymios Zigabenos And The Return To The Past / C.E. Barber -- Afterword / C.E. Barber -- Bibliography / C.E. Barber -- Index / C.E. Barber -- Illustrations / C.E. Barber.

Sommario/riassunto

Studies of the icon in Byzantium have tended to focus on the iconoclastic era of the eighth- and ninth-centuries. This study shows that discussion of the icon was far from settled by this lengthy dispute. While the theory of the icon in Byzantium was governed by a logical understanding that had limited painting to the visible alone, the four authors addressed in this book struggled with this constraint. Symeon the New Theologian, driven by a desire for divine vision, chose, effectively, to disregard the icon. Michael Psellos used a profound neoplatonism to examine the relationship between an icon and



miracles. Eustratios of Nicaea followed the logic of painting to the point at which he could clarify a distinction between painting from theology. Leo of Chalcedon attempted to describe a formal presence in the divine portrait of Christ. All told, these authors open perspectives on the icon that enrich and expand our own modernist understanding of this crucial medium.