Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art by Hans Belting

Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art

Hans Belting with Edmund Jephcott (Translator)

676 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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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