Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/3RHnvw Subtle Bodies Representing Angels in Byzantium By: Glenn Peers Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520224056, 0520224051 eText ISBN: 9780520925137, 0520925130 Edition: 1st Pages: 250 Copyright year: 2001 Format: PDF Available from $ 63.00 USD SKU 9780520925137 Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in general.
