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Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Studies of the icon in Byzantium have tended to focus on the iconoclastic era of the eighth- and ninth-centuries. This study shows that discussion of the icon was far from settled by this lengthy dispute. While the theory of the icon in Byzantium was governed by a logical understanding that had limited painting to the visible alone, the four authors addressed in this book struggled with this constraint. Symeon the New Theologian, driven by a desire for divine vision, chose, effectively, to disregard the icon. Michael Psellos used a profound neoplatonism to examine the relationship between an icon and miracles. Eustratios of Nicaea followed the logic of painting to the point at which he could clarify a distinction between painting from theology. Leo of Chalcedon attempted to describe a formal presence in the divine portrait of Christ. All told, these authors open perspectives on the icon that enrich and expand our own modernist understanding of this crucial medium.
Book Details
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: Sep 21st, 2007
- Pages: 179
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.58in - 6.55in - 0.72in - 1.24lb
- EAN: 9789004162716
- Categories: • Movements - Medieval• Subjects & Themes - Religious• History - General
About the Author
Charles Barber, Ph.D. (1989) in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, is Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Notre Dame. He has published numerous essays on Byzantine art. His books include Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm (Princeton, 2002).
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