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Problem Portraits: The Ambivalence of Visual Representation in Byzantium

Chatterjee, Paroma

The Journal of medieval and early modern studies, 2010-03, Vol.40 (2), p.223-247 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Problem Portraits: The Ambivalence of Visual Representation in Byzantium
Autor: Chatterjee, Paroma
Assuntos: 300-1499 Byzantine period ; Art and Visual Culture ; Art History ; biography ; Byzantine civilization ; Greek literature ; hagiography ; Hearing ; History ; Literary Criticism ; Literature and Literary Studies ; Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; Medieval history ; Philosophy ; portrait ; Pre-modern Studies ; Prototypes ; Saints ; Theology ; Visual artists
É parte de: The Journal of medieval and early modern studies, 2010-03, Vol.40 (2), p.223-247
Descrição: This study offers a close reading of the processes involved in crafting a Byzantine holy portrait by focusing on certain episodes in the and the , hagiographies dated to the eleventh century. The article argues that the anxieties of visual representation in Byzantium are encoded in those episodes in the narrative in which an artist prepares to make a saint's portrait. In the process, the episodes offer provocative ruminations on the relations between a representation and its prototype, words and images, sight versus hearing, and the roles of the artist and the viewer. They reveal that these issues were by no means resolved with the official end of Iconoclasm in 843, but remained vibrant arenas of philosophical and theological reflection well into the eleventh century.
Editor: Durham: Duke University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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