Experiencing the Last Judgement

ISBN-13: 9780367898502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 382 str.

Niamh Bhalla

Opis

Experiencing the Last Judgement moves beyond a purely didactic understanding of the Byzantine image of the Last Judgement, as a visual eschatological text to be ‘read’ and learned from, and proposes instead an appreciation of each unique image as a dynamic site to be experienced.

Spis treści

1. Towards an Alternative ‘Reading’ of the Last Judgement  2. The Deconstruction of Time and Space: Immersive Experiences of Judgement: The Chora Parekklesion  3. Use, Agency and the Formulation of the Image: Yılanlı Kilise  4. Experiencing the ‘Byzantine’ Last Judgement in the Latin West: Torcello  5. The Mnemonic Experience of Judgement: The Sinai Hexaptych  6. The Embodied Experience of Judgement: Mavriotissa Monastery  7. The Gendered Experience of Heaven and Hell: Yılanlı Kilise and the Kokkinobaphos Manuscripts  8. The Rhetoric of Judgement: A Twelfth-century Icon from Mount Sinai

O autorze

Niamh Bhalla is Course Leader and Lecturer in Art History at New College of the Humanities, Northeastern University in London. She completed her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, and has previously lectured and worked on research projects at The Courtauld and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research focuses on the social agency of late-classical and Byzantine imagery. She explores themes such as space, memory, the body, gender and rhetoric in relation to the experience of visual imagery.