Spiritual Seeing : Picturing God's invisibility in Medieval art

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Explores the ways in which the medieval debate about the functions and limits iof images influence 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 imahes in Byzantium and the Latin west were able to situate art at the boundary between physical and spiritual worlds.

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• ISBN : 9780812235609
• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• Imprint : University of Pennsylvania Press
• Product Type : books

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• Bind : Hardback
• Author : Herbert L. Kessler