[PDF.51gc] The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

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 | #1385335 in Books |  2010-10-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x.89 x7.00l,2.42 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Intriguing, Fascinating, Challenging|By Wes|This is a serious book - make no mistake. When the text is 230 pages and the Appendix and Footnotes cover 100 pages, it's not just an idly-composed essay written on a rainy afternoon. Just deciding where to begin explaining the concepts has me sitting here pondering ...

An opening premise of the book is that our knowledge| ||“The Sensual Icon is a major new contribution to Byzantine art history and will be an important turning point in our understanding of the aesthetics and reception of the icon in Byzantium.”|—Henry Maguire, The Johns Hopkins Universi

Today we take the word “icon” to mean “a sign,” or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon, emerging through the Incarnation; so, too, were the bodies of the stylites (column-saints) penetrated by the divine pneuma (breath or spirit), or the Eucharist, o...

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