Dal simbolismo della rosa alle reliquie: per un approccio all’estetica cristiana tardoantica
Christians of the fourth and fifth centuries adopted Late Antique aesthetics, characterized by brilliance, dazzle and colors, to create a new form of imagination, where the corpses of the martyrs and their physical remains became shining bodies. Relics became a spiritual body, whose μετάληψις often...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | Italian |
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Pubblicazioni Agostiniane
2023
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Augustinianum
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 527-544 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCD Hagiography; saints |
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Summary: | Christians of the fourth and fifth centuries adopted Late Antique aesthetics, characterized by brilliance, dazzle and colors, to create a new form of imagination, where the corpses of the martyrs and their physical remains became shining bodies. Relics became a spiritual body, whose μετάληψις often produced roses or violets. Therefore there was a strict association in Late Antique Christianity among roses, relics and the colour red. |
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ISSN: | 2162-6499 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Augustinianum
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/agstm202363223 |