Author : Gillian Spalding-Stracey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004430512
In The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt Gillian Spalding-Stracey offers an exploration of the variety of ways in which the Holy Cross was expressed in imagery, in the monastic and ecclesiastical settings of late antique Egypt.
Author : Gillian Spalding-Stracey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :
This thesis focuses on representations of the cross, that most fundamental symbol of the Christian faith. More specifically, it is an art historical exploration of the varied designs of the crosses of Christian Egypt, from the fourth to the twelfth century. The corpus, across the monastic landscape, is rich and diverse, reflecting the syncretistic society that commissioned and produced it. The designs are remarkable and sometimes unique. Representations occur in wall paintings, funerary sculpture, architectural features in stone and wood, and on a wide range of domestic and liturgical objects.
Author : William Wood Seymour
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN :
"This work discusses the cross throughout history, from prehistoric times to modern day. Found within are chapters entitled: cross before the Christian Era and in prehistoric times; types of the cross; early form and use of the cross; legends of the cross; true cross and its traditionary history; title of the cross; doctrinal teaching of the crucifixion; cross and crucifix in early Christian art; various types of crosses; varieties of the cross; objects with the cross on them; sign of the cross; Puritan objections to the cross; and miscellaneous crosses."--B & N.
Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674088808
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix—the cross with the figure of Christ—and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.
Author : Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1451490305
Upending a longstanding consensus, Bruce W. Longenecker presents a wide variety of material artifacts to illustrate that Christians made use of the cross as a visual symbol of their faith long before Constantine appropriated it to consolidate his power in the fourth century. Constantine did not invent the cross as a symbol of Christian faith; for an impressive number of Christians before Constantines reign, the cross served as a visual symbol of commitment to a living deity in a dangerous world.
Author : William Wood Seymour
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781497890817
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
Author : Mitchell B. Merback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226520155
Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western visual culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked in this symbolic language is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital punishment. In The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel, Mitchell Merback reconstructs the religious, legal, and historical context of the Crucifixion and of other images of public torture. The result is an account of a time when criminal justice and religion were entirely interrelated and punishment was a visual spectacle devoured by a popular audience.
Author : Ildar Garipzanov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0192546627
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other such devices, are examined against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph is a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. This study promises to provide a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists.
Author : Fabio Guidetti
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789254493
Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural decoration, and luxury arts (silver plate, textiles, ivories), as well as in everyday objects such as tableware, lamps, and pilgrim vessels. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions, mingled with local elements, far beyond the traditional borders of the classical world. At the same time, foreign motifs, especially of Germanic and Sasanian origin, are attested in Roman territories. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions. The presentation of a wide range of relevant case studies chosen from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the vast scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of addressing such a complex historical question with a combination of different theoretical approaches.
Author : Alexander Badawy
Publisher :
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
