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->
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| Titolo: |
Contesting the logic of painting [[electronic resource] ] : art and understanding in eleventh-century Byzantium / / by Charles Barber
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-281-93989-7 |
| 9786611939892 | |
| 90-474-3161-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827582203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Visualising the Middle Ages ; ; v. 2.