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Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art : New Perspectives on Abstraction and Symbolism in Late-Roman and Early-Byzantine Visual Culture (c. 300-600) / Anna Cecilia Olovsdotter. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018] ©2019 1 online resource (244 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction / Olovsdotter, Cecilia -- 1. Late Antique Art and Modernist Vision / Bassett, Sarah -- 2. The Other Hippocampus: Neuroscience and Early Christian Art / Onians, John -- 3. Image and Meta-Image: Byzantine Aesthetics and Orthodox Faith / Karahan, Anne -- 4. Abstraction in Late Antique Art / Kiilerich, Bente -- 5. The Twelve-Silver-Column Programme in the Martyrium Church in Jerusalem / Brenk, Beat -- 6. Defining Space: Abstraction, Symbolism and Allegory on Display in Early Byzantine Art / Warland, Rainer -- 7. Architecture and the Spheres of the Universe in Late Antique Art / Olovsdotter, Cecilia -- 8. Christus Verus Sol - Christus Imperator: Religious and Imperial Symbolism in the Mosaics of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki / Torp, Hjalmar -- 9. A "Modern Myth": The Sixth-Century Starting Date of the "Eastern" Representation of Christ's Ascension / Engemann, Josef -- 10. Symbolic Aspects of the Mosaics in the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha / Bevilacqua, Livia -- Index 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019) Byzantine art. Kunst /Byzanz. Kunst /Spätantike. Late Antique art. Symbolism. Symbolismus /Byzanz. Symbolismus /Spätantike. visual culture. Olovsdotter, Anna Cecilia, editor. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE DG 2019 English 9783110616859 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2018 English 9783110604009 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2018 9783110603095 ZDB-23-DGD EPUB 9783110546507 print 9783110543742 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110546842 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783110546842.jpg |
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Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art : New Perspectives on Abstraction and Symbolism in Late-Roman and Early-Byzantine Visual Culture (c. 300-600) / Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction / 1. Late Antique Art and Modernist Vision / 2. The Other Hippocampus: Neuroscience and Early Christian Art / 3. Image and Meta-Image: Byzantine Aesthetics and Orthodox Faith / 4. Abstraction in Late Antique Art / 5. The Twelve-Silver-Column Programme in the Martyrium Church in Jerusalem / 6. Defining Space: Abstraction, Symbolism and Allegory on Display in Early Byzantine Art / 7. Architecture and the Spheres of the Universe in Late Antique Art / 8. Christus Verus Sol - Christus Imperator: Religious and Imperial Symbolism in the Mosaics of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki / 9. A "Modern Myth": The Sixth-Century Starting Date of the "Eastern" Representation of Christ's Ascension / 10. Symbolic Aspects of the Mosaics in the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha / Index |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction / 1. Late Antique Art and Modernist Vision / 2. The Other Hippocampus: Neuroscience and Early Christian Art / 3. Image and Meta-Image: Byzantine Aesthetics and Orthodox Faith / 4. Abstraction in Late Antique Art / 5. The Twelve-Silver-Column Programme in the Martyrium Church in Jerusalem / 6. Defining Space: Abstraction, Symbolism and Allegory on Display in Early Byzantine Art / 7. Architecture and the Spheres of the Universe in Late Antique Art / 8. Christus Verus Sol - Christus Imperator: Religious and Imperial Symbolism in the Mosaics of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki / 9. A "Modern Myth": The Sixth-Century Starting Date of the "Eastern" Representation of Christ's Ascension / 10. Symbolic Aspects of the Mosaics in the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha / Index |
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