Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
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Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The History of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The History of the Likeness of Christ which the Jews of Tiberias Made to Mock at: The Syriac texts
Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
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Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The history of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the history of the likeness of Christ which the Jews of Tiberias made to mock at
Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
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Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publisher:
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Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative
Author: Jack M. Greenstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226307077
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In this study, Jack M. Greenstein draws on Early Renaissance art theory, modern narratology, translation studies, critical theory, the philosophy of history, and biblical hermeneutics to explicate the sense and significance of one of Andrea Mantegna's most enigmatic and influential works, the Uffizi Circumcision of Christ. Faced with a work that resists established methods of iconographical analysis, Greenstein reassesses the nature and goals of high humanist narrative painting. The result is a new, historically grounded theory of iconography that calls into question many widely held assumptions about the social and intellectual value of Early Renaissance art. Greenstein's theory rests on a careful analysis of Leon Battista Alberti's commentary On Painting, which equated both the form and the content of artistically composed painting with historia. Situating this equation within a centuries-old discourse on the multivalent significance of the Bible, Greenstein shows that, for Alberti, historia was a mode of artistic narrative, common to literature and painting, in which moral truths were presented to the corporeal senses, particularly to vision, in the guise of plausible human actions. In Greenstein's reading, the painter's primary task was the construction of a visually plausible narrative that effectively conveyed the higher meanings of historia. Having thus delineated the structure of significance in Albertian painting, Greenstein shows what was at stake when a painter of Mantegna's historical bent undertook to produce a historia. As one of the leading historical thinkers of his age, Mantegna imbued his depicted scenes with the plausibility of historical events by employing thosecodes of evidence, causality, and historical distance that underlay the Renaissance sense of the past. But the Circumcision of Christ resisted such treatment because the symbolic conventions developed by earlier artists for conveying the higher theological meanings of the theme were incompatible with the representational fidelity embraced by painters of historia. Mantegna overcame these difficulties by arriving at a new understanding of the Circumcision, which remained faithful to the narrative structure as well as the theological content of the biblical account. His interpretation was widely adopted by later artists, but was so pictorial in nature that, despite its consistency with the biblical account, it remained with-out parallel in theological literature. Greenstein's discovery--that artistic production of Albertian painting was a specialized and singularly visual form of thinking whose roots lay more in readerly hermeneutics than in perception, commerce, or common visual experience--raises questions about narrative, representation, and the textuality of art that will interest a wide array of scholars.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226307077
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In this study, Jack M. Greenstein draws on Early Renaissance art theory, modern narratology, translation studies, critical theory, the philosophy of history, and biblical hermeneutics to explicate the sense and significance of one of Andrea Mantegna's most enigmatic and influential works, the Uffizi Circumcision of Christ. Faced with a work that resists established methods of iconographical analysis, Greenstein reassesses the nature and goals of high humanist narrative painting. The result is a new, historically grounded theory of iconography that calls into question many widely held assumptions about the social and intellectual value of Early Renaissance art. Greenstein's theory rests on a careful analysis of Leon Battista Alberti's commentary On Painting, which equated both the form and the content of artistically composed painting with historia. Situating this equation within a centuries-old discourse on the multivalent significance of the Bible, Greenstein shows that, for Alberti, historia was a mode of artistic narrative, common to literature and painting, in which moral truths were presented to the corporeal senses, particularly to vision, in the guise of plausible human actions. In Greenstein's reading, the painter's primary task was the construction of a visually plausible narrative that effectively conveyed the higher meanings of historia. Having thus delineated the structure of significance in Albertian painting, Greenstein shows what was at stake when a painter of Mantegna's historical bent undertook to produce a historia. As one of the leading historical thinkers of his age, Mantegna imbued his depicted scenes with the plausibility of historical events by employing thosecodes of evidence, causality, and historical distance that underlay the Renaissance sense of the past. But the Circumcision of Christ resisted such treatment because the symbolic conventions developed by earlier artists for conveying the higher theological meanings of the theme were incompatible with the representational fidelity embraced by painters of historia. Mantegna overcame these difficulties by arriving at a new understanding of the Circumcision, which remained faithful to the narrative structure as well as the theological content of the biblical account. His interpretation was widely adopted by later artists, but was so pictorial in nature that, despite its consistency with the biblical account, it remained with-out parallel in theological literature. Greenstein's discovery--that artistic production of Albertian painting was a specialized and singularly visual form of thinking whose roots lay more in readerly hermeneutics than in perception, commerce, or common visual experience--raises questions about narrative, representation, and the textuality of art that will interest a wide array of scholars.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review
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Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Compendious Syriac Grammar
Author: Theodor Nöldeke
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060507
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This quality Eisenbrauns reprint (now in its third printing) of Crichton's 1904 translation of N ldeke's Kurzgefasste Syrische Grammatik incorporates for the first time Anton Schall's transcription of the great Semitist's original handwritten supplementary material (translated by Peter T. Daniels). N ldeke outlines in great detail the orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Syriac in this reference grammar.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060507
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This quality Eisenbrauns reprint (now in its third printing) of Crichton's 1904 translation of N ldeke's Kurzgefasste Syrische Grammatik incorporates for the first time Anton Schall's transcription of the great Semitist's original handwritten supplementary material (translated by Peter T. Daniels). N ldeke outlines in great detail the orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Syriac in this reference grammar.
The Seven Tablets of Creation: Supplementary texts
Author: Leonard William King
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Bibliotheca Orientalis
Author: Luzac &co
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Yarnall Library of Theology of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia. St. Clement's church. Yarnall library of theology
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Category : Catholic church
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
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Category : Catholic church
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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