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Understanding Early Christian Art - Robin M. Jensen

Understanding Early Christian Art

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Buch | Hardcover
266 Seiten
2023 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-10550-5 (ISBN)
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Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students. Now in full colour, this is a valuable guide for students and scholars of religion and art history.
Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students.

It opens by discussing a series of questions pertaining to the evidence itself and how scholars through the centuries have regarded this material as expressing and transmitting aspects of the developing faith and practice of early adherents of Christianity. It considers possible sources for the various motifs and the complex relationship between words and images, as well as the importance of studying visual and material culture alongside theological and liturgical texts. Rather than organising surviving examples by medium or chronology, the chapters categorise the evidence according to their general iconographic type, such as generic symbols, biblical narratives, and portraits. Each chapter takes up important questions of visual culture, formal style, and the ways in which the iconography is distinct from or shows parallels with contemporary documentary sources like sermons, exegetical works, catechetical lectures, or dogmatic treatises. Concluding with a discussion of the late-emerging depictions of Jesus’s crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, it remains a valuable guide to comprehending the complex theology, history, and context of Christian art.

Augmented by over 140 full-colour images, accompanied by parallel text, the interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking approach taken in this extensively revised edition of Understanding Early Christian Art enables students and scholars in fields such as religion and art history to further their understanding and knowledge of the art of the early Christian era.

Robin M. Jensen is the Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where she is a fellow of the Medieval Institute and holds concurrent appointments in the Departments of Art History and Classics. Her published works explore the intersection of early Christian art, ecclesial architecture, liturgy, and theological discourse. Her most recent publication is From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Art in Late Antiquity (2022), and she co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art (2018).

1. Overview of the Evidence and Methodological Questions; 2. Early Christian Symbols; 3. Biblical Narratives in Early Christian Art; 4. From Christ the Miracle Worker and Teacher to Christ the King and Lawgiver; 5. Depicting the Divine: Jesus and the Holy Trinity; 6. Jesus's Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Understanding the Ancient World
Zusatzinfo 141 Halftones, color; 141 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 700 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-032-10550-X / 103210550X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-10550-5 / 9781032105505
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