Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. By Robin Margaret Jensen. Pp. xviii + 234. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004. isbn 0 8006 6092 7 and 3678 3. Paper 20
Many questions are raised by visual art, since images are inevitably ambiguous. Portraits are a particular kind of problematic image, and this is especially true of the images of the early church. This book sets out to consider the question of early Christian portraiture. The representations examine...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 758-760 |
| Review of: | Face to face (Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, 2005) (Charles-Murray, Mary)
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| Summary: | Many questions are raised by visual art, since images are inevitably ambiguous. Portraits are a particular kind of problematic image, and this is especially true of the images of the early church. This book sets out to consider the question of early Christian portraiture. The representations examined date from the earliest known examples of specifically Christian art in the third century to those of the period just prior to iconoclasm, about 726, when the place of the icon was established in the thinking and liturgy of Byzantium. But these images clearly show that in early Christian art it is difficult to know what counts as a portrait., It may be for this reason that the definition of portraiture which the author uses is a modern one. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll057 |