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



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Autore: Barber Charles <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Contesting the logic of painting [[electronic resource] ] : art and understanding in eleventh-century Byzantium / / by Charles Barber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
Disciplina: 704.9/48209495
Soggetto topico: Icons, Byzantine
Image (Theology)
Soggetto geografico: Byzantine Empire Church history
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Contesting the logic of painting  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-93989-7
9786611939892
90-474-3161-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782229803321
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Serie: Visualising the Middle Ages ; ; v. 2.