Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, C.680 - 880

ISBN-13: 9780415793728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Francesca Dell'acqua

Opis

Through case studies examined in a comparative East-West approach, this book analyses how Byzantine iconoclasm (ca. 720s-843) impacted on the West and how it shaped a papal reaction in Rome. The policy on the production and veneration of sacred images that was then adopted by the popes would only be challenged 700 years later by the Protestant Reformation. The key aims and contribution of this book are its demonstration of how a number of the most iconic ways of representing the Virgin Mary and Christ - crystallized over the long Middles Ages and the early Renaissance in Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and western art - were conceived or given a reinforced meaning during the period of the iconoclasm between the West and Byzantium.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1. Before Iconoclasm and its Early Echoes (680s–750s); Chapter 2. Words, Images, and Religious Practices in the Iconophile Discourse (754–790s); Chapter 3. Textual Icons. Iconophile Thinking and Preaching in Central Italy; Chapter 4. A Glimpse of Salvation. Christ as Light; Chapter 5. Christ Child – the Lamb of God – on the Altar; Chapter 6. Figuring Intercession. The Assumption of Mary; Appendix 1. Mary as Queen of Heaven; Appendix 2. Mary as Gate of Heaven and Ladder to Heaven; Epilogue

O autorze

Francesca Dell’Acqua is Associate Professor in History of Medieval Art at the Università di Salerno. She received her Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She has since held research fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, and the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, where she was Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow of the European Commission.