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676 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226042152
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 January 1997
Description
Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and it...
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676 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226042152
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 January 1997
Description
Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and it...