Product details

Art.No:

99165

Author / Artist:

Ousterhout, Robert and Leslie Brubaker:

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Keyword:

Kunst - Allgemein

Binding / Picture Size:

OLwd. m. OU

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

Place of publishing:

Year of publication:

1995

Book Details / Size:

8°, XIII, 312 S., 103 Abb.

Condition:

Tadell.

Description:

A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. The essays cover a full range of images, including panel paintings, altarpieces, manuscripts, and wall paintings, and a rich variety of socioreligious settings, private, monastic, and imperial. Also examined are the differences between images produced for a single viewer and those produced for communities; images produced for private contemplation or devotion and those functioned within a liturgical setting; and the varying ways in which sacred images affected women and men, religious and secular communities, rulers and ruled.