The language of images : the rise of icons and Christian representation

Author

Cameron, Averil

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Church and the arts

Author (monograph)

Wood, Diana (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Church and the arts. 1992, 1-4 2, 13 ill. (2 col.)

Publisher

Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, Oxford (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Argues that from the later 6th to the 8th c., religious images, which were held by iconophiles to represent objective truth, came to be seen as one of the guarantors of knowledge, and were thus an important component in the evolving belief system of Byzantine society at the time. The debate in which religious images were a part was both more immediate and more continuous in the Eastern context, where the history of Christian opposition to images combined with the particular circumstances of the 7th c. to make them the focus of existing tensions between symbolism and realism.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts
• Iconoclasm
• Byzantine Empire
• 700-800
• Symbolism
• Realism
• Truth
• Devotional imagery
• Christian iconography
• Art
• Society
• Byzantine

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques
• Iconoclasme
• Empire byzantin
• 700-800
• Symbolisme
• Réalisme
• Vérité
• Imagerie de dévotion
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Art
• Société
• Byzantin (art)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19930401-00368708

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