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Allegory in Byzantium: The Book of Wisdom and the hidden allegory in the age of Justinian - Hardcover

Rainer Warland

 
9783795490126: Allegory in Byzantium: The Book of Wisdom and the hidden allegory in the age of Justinian
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 379549012X ISBN 13: 9783795490126
Verlag: Schnell & Steiner, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This book is about major early Byzantine works such as the ivory Cathedra of Ravenna, the Purple Codex of Rossano, and the Cypriot silver plates of the life of David held in Nicosia and New York. The leaps in pictorial organization, inconsistencies in pictorial composition, and breaks in pictorial narrative that have long puzzled scholars are explained here in novel terms as the intentional narrative form of a hidden allegory. This deeper reading of biblical events works with duplications, juxtapositions, and contrasts which, in the biblical action, describe the underlying work of God in creation and history. The images in question do not illustrate the biblical text but interpret it allegorically, remaining close to the text both pictorially and exegetically. They challenge the mind of the most attentive observer.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rainer Warland was professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the universities of Göttingen, Halle and Freiburg until his retirement in 2016.

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Verlag
Schnell & Steiner
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
379549012X
ISBN 13 
9783795490126
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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