Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art (The Middle Ages Series

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Название: Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art (The Middle Ages Series

Автор: Herbert L. Kessler

Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press

Год: 2008

Страниц 296

ISBN: 0812235606

Формат: PDF

Размер: 69 MB

Язык Английский

If we cannot see God with our own eyes, for what purpose do we picture God in art? During the Middle Ages, the Second Commandment's warning against idolatry was largely set aside as the power of images became boldly and visibly evident. By the twelfth century, one Byzantine authority could even offer his own revision of the Commandment: "Thou shalt paint the likeness of Christ Himself." How and when, Herbert L. Kessler asks, was the Jewish prohibition of images in worship converted into a Christian imperative to picture God's invisibility once God had taken human form in the body of Jesus Christ?