Iconotropy and cult images from the ancient to modern world. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez.
• Editors: Tomás García, Jorge; Sáenz-López Pérez, Sandra
• Contents: Introduction: Iconotropy and the Alteration of Religious Images Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez 1. Sensuous Encounters: The Adornment of Cult Statues in Ancient Greece Cecilie Brøns 2. Taming the Gorgon: Visual Iconotropy in the Archaic Greek Medusa Rafael Jackson-Mart í n 3. The Religion of Theft: Stolen Cult Images in ancient Greek Ritual and Cult Aaron Beck-Schachter 4. The New Life of Greek Images Outside Greece: The Case of Iberia Adolfo J. Domínguez 5. What Does an Idol Look Like? Visualizing Idolatry in Late Antique Jewish and Christian Art Giovanni Gasbarri 6. Pagan Statues in Islamic Context: Iconotropy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus Jorge Elices Ocón 7. Cross-Mediterranean Misinterpretations of Sacred Imagery Michele Bacci 8. Enchanted by the ‘Madonna Nicopeia’: Reception, Myth and the Methodological Pitfalls of the Art Historian Meital Shai 9. Avalokiteśvara is Mutating Again: Chinese and Japanese Encounters with the Virgin Mary Marco Musillo
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 202.18; Idols and images; Religious art; Religion and culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000574210; 9781000574180; 9781003186502
• Related ISBNs: 9781032030654
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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