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- catalog abstract ""In Spiritual Seeing, Kessler explores ways in which the medieval debate about the functions and limits of images influenced the production of sacred art. Offering a new interpretation of Christian images as mediators between the human and the sacred, Kessler considers how the creators of images in Byzantium and the Latin West were able to situate art at the boundary between the physical and the spiritual worlds. He examines the ways in which images acquired such legitimacy that sacred art became a privileged metaphor for divine revelation. Portraits of Christ, in particular, took on central importance. Throughout the book, Kessler also considers the lingering anxiety about the capacity of human sight to apprehend the divine in images. In so doing, he discloses the artful dodges devised to deal with the controversy of picturing God's invisibility in material form."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Picturing God's invisibility in medieval art".
- catalog contributor b11833210.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In Spiritual Seeing, Kessler explores ways in which the medieval debate about the functions and limits of images influenced the production of sacred art. Offering a new interpretation of Christian images as mediators between the human and the sacred, Kessler considers how the creators of images in Byzantium and the Latin West were able to situate art at the boundary between the physical and the spiritual worlds. He examines the ways in which images acquired such legitimacy that sacred art became a privileged metaphor for divine revelation. Portraits of Christ, in particular, took on central importance. Throughout the book, Kessler also considers the lingering anxiety about the capacity of human sight to apprehend the divine in images.".
- catalog description "In so doing, he discloses the artful dodges devised to deal with the controversy of picturing God's invisibility in material form."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-258) and index.".
- catalog description "The icon in the narrative -- "Thous shalt paint the likeness of Christ Himself" : the mosaic prohibition as provocation for Christian images -- Medieval art as argument -- Configuring the invisible by copying Holy Face -- Gazing at the future : the Parousia miniature in Vatican cod. gr. 699 -- Real absence : early medieval art and the metamorphosis of vision -- "Facies bibliothecae revelata" : Carolingian art as spiritual seeing -- The function of vitrum vestitum and the use of materia saphirorum in Suger's St.-Denis.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 265 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0812235606 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The Middle Ages series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog subject "246/.1 21".
- catalog subject "Art, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "BR115.A8 K47 2000".
- catalog subject "BR115.A8 K47 2000X".
- catalog subject "Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500.".
- catalog subject "Image (Theology) History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The icon in the narrative -- "Thous shalt paint the likeness of Christ Himself" : the mosaic prohibition as provocation for Christian images -- Medieval art as argument -- Configuring the invisible by copying Holy Face -- Gazing at the future : the Parousia miniature in Vatican cod. gr. 699 -- Real absence : early medieval art and the metamorphosis of vision -- "Facies bibliothecae revelata" : Carolingian art as spiritual seeing -- The function of vitrum vestitum and the use of materia saphirorum in Suger's St.-Denis.".
- catalog title "Picturing God's invisibility in medieval art".
- catalog title "Spiritual seeing : picturing God's invisibility in medieval art / Herbert L. Kessler.".
- catalog type "text".