Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact Between Human and Divine

ISBN-13: 9781108418591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 260 str.

Rico Franses

Opis

Explores the complex relationship between art and religious belief in this important genre of painting.

Recenzje

'This is a book that takes a broadly synchronic look across the Byzantine world, a view that different works of art in different media from different times and places nonetheless speak to the same broad Christian world-view, to similar structures … This is a perspective that makes us think and it makes us question, and that is what the best scholarship should do.' Liz James, The English Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction: methodologies for the study of donor portraits; 1. The history and problematic of the donor portrait; 2. On meaning in portraits. The knot of intention and the question of the patron's share; 3. Awaiting the end after the end. Sin, absolution, and the afterlife; 4. Exchange and non-exchange. The gift between human and divine; 5. The literal, the symbolic, and the contact portrait. On belief in the interaction between human and divine; Postscript: the problem of terminology again. Donor portraits and contact portraits.