TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belting,Hans
AU  - Jephcott,Edmund
TI  - Likeness and presence: a history of the image before the era of art 
SN  - 0226042154 (pbk.)
AV  - N 7850 B4513.1996
PY  - 1996///, 1994
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Christian art and symbolism
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - Arte y simbolismo cristiano
KW  - Edad Media, 500-1500
KW  - Icons
KW  - Iconos
KW  - Saints
KW  - Cult
KW  - Santos
KW  - Culto
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 605-615) e índice; Introduction -- The icon from a modern perspective and in light of its history -- Why images? : imagery and religion in late antiquity -- Heavenly images and earthly portraits : St. Luke's picture and "unpainted" originals in Rome and the Eastern Empire -- Roman funerary portraits and portraits of the saints -- The imperial image in antiquity and the problem of the Christian cult of images -- Image devotion, public relations, and theology at the end of antiquity -- Church and image : the doctrine of the church and iconoclasm --; The holy image in church decoration and a new policy of images -- Pilgrims, emperors and confraternities : veneration of icons in Byzantium and Venice -- The "holy face" : legends and images in competition -- The iconostasis and the role of the icon in the liturgy and in private devotion -- "Living painting" : poetry and rhetoric in a new style of icons in the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- Statues, vessels, and signs : medieval images and relics in the West -- The icon in the civic life of Rome -- "In the Greek manner" : imported icons in the West --; Norm and freedom : Italian icons in the age of the Tuscan cities -- The madonnas of Siena : the image in urban life -- The dialogue with the image : the era of the private image at the end of the Middle Ages -- Religion and art : the crisis of the image at the beginning of the modern age
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