Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art

Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art

The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine

Franses, Rico

Cambridge University Press

11/2018

260

Dura

Inglês

9781108418591

15 a 20 dias

690

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Introduction: methodologies for the study of donor portraits; 1. The history and problematic of the donor portrait; 2. On meaning in portraits. The knot of intention and the question of the patron's share; 3. Awaiting the end after the end. Sin, absolution, and the afterlife; 4. Exchange and non-exchange. The gift between human and divine; 5. The literal, the symbolic, and the contact portrait. On belief in the interaction between human and divine; Postscript: the problem of terminology again. Donor portraits and contact portraits.