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The apse mosaic in early medieval Rome : time, network, and repetition / Erik Thunø.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: xv, 325 pages, 18 p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107069909 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 738.5/20945632 23
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Repetition: saints, popes, and golden texts; 2. Transformation: from material church to spiritual body; 3. Incorporation: becoming a living stone; 4. Networking: building a communion sanctorum; Afterword: meaning and presence; Appendix.
Summary: "This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thunø proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition, and vision"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Printed Books Accademia di Danimarca KU/It. Thun 01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan ACDAN15041447
Printed Books British School at Rome 622.2.T.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan presented by Mary Jacobus BSR15020257

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Repetition: saints, popes, and golden texts; 2. Transformation: from material church to spiritual body; 3. Incorporation: becoming a living stone; 4. Networking: building a communion sanctorum; Afterword: meaning and presence; Appendix.

"This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thunø proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition, and vision"-- Provided by publisher.

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