Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium

The author of Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium is Glenn Peers Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in.This title is available at BookMoving on Glenn Peers's eBooks, .Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in ... Textbook, course, ebook, pdf, download at bookmoving .