Isbn: 9783895007033 - the apse, the image and the icon: an historical perspective of the apse as a space for images: 26.0 (reihe b: studien und perspektiven) (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Spatantike-Fruhes Christentum-Byzanz; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Neu. Spätantike - Frühes Christentum - Byzanz 220 S. 106 s/w Abb./ill. b/w, 37 farbige Abb./ill. (color), 600 g. This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperial times, nourished the invention of the Christian apse image: on the one hand there were statues in apses of pagan temples and imperial cult rooms which were venerated during cult ceremonies, on the other hand, there were apse mosaics in nymphaea where aquatic myths and figures celebrated the amenities of water. Christian apse mosaics originated within this context and in spite of the Old Testament prohibition of the image. Mosaics and frescoes in apses of cult rooms generated very particular effects, evoking in the viewer respect, admiration, awe and maybe even veneration. The capacity of the image to have an impact on the viewer could not be decreed by the Church, but this was an affair manifested more or less casually according to the inventive power of the artist. This book explores the interactions between the various image-media during the early Christian and early Byzantine periods; it particularly investigates the participation of the viewer and of the patron.…

Casebound Hardcover. VG, board corners bumped. 106 color and black and white plates 131 pp.

Condición: New. This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperial times, nourished the invention of the Christian apse image: on the one hand there were statues .

Buch. Condición: Neu. The Apse, the Image and the Icon | An Historical Perspective of the Apse as a Space for Images | Beat Brenk | Buch | Englisch | 2010 | Reichert | EAN 9783895007033 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Heil, Margaret, Margaret Heil, Reichert, Anne-Frank-Str. 11, 63762 Großostheim, margret-heil[at]gmx[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Harcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. The Apse, the Image and the Icon. An Historical Perspective of the Apse as a Space for Images Brenk, Beat ISBN: 9783895007033 Descrizione libro: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2010. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Neu. 24X17. Spätantike - Frühes Christentum - Byzanz 220 S. 106 s/w Abb./ill. b/w, 37 farbige Abb./ill. (color), 600 g. This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperial times, nourished the invention of the Christian apse image: on the one hand there were statues in apses of pagan temples and imperial cult rooms which were venerated during cult ceremonies, on the other hand, there were apse mosaics in nymphaea where aquatic myths and figures celebrated the amenities of water. Christian apse mosaics originated within this context and in spite of the Old Testament prohibition of the image. Mosaics and frescoes in apses of cult rooms generated very particular effects, evoking in the viewer respect, admiration, awe and maybe even veneration. The capacity of the image to have an impact on the viewer could not be decreed by the Church, but this was an affair manifested more or less casually according to the inventive power of the artist. This book explores the interactions between the various image-media during the early Christian and early Byzantine periods; it particularly investigates the participation of the viewer and of the patron. Codice libro della libreria 226891 Language : English text Size: 170 x 240 mm. C2. …