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Christian art in oriental literatures : Greek, Syriac and Coptic sources from the 4th to the 7th century / Tomasz Polański.
LIBRA N7973 .P65 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polański, Tomasz, author.
- Series:
- Grazer Beiträge. Supplementband ; 15.
- Grazer Beiträge : Zeitschrift für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft. Supplementband ; xv
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian art and symbolism--Middle East--To 500.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Christian art and symbolism--Middle East--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Christian art and symbolism--Middle East--History--Sources.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Salzburg-Horn : F. Berger u. Söhne, 2013.
- Contents:
- Mysteries of Byzantine painting and mosaic decoration: the Church of St. Sergius in Gaza
- The landscapes of earthly and heavenly paradise: the Church of St. Stephen in Gaza
- Christian images in ancient and modern theological and academic controversies
- The icons and Acheiropoietoi images of Christ
- Icons of the Virgin Mary: a scarcity of literary traditions and pictorial evidence
- Icons of the Apostles, martyrs and ascetics: the remnants of the flourishing original tradition
- Images and church decoration: what did the Eastern Church interiors look like?
- The three young men in the furnace in the Coptic sermon by Theophilus of Alexandria
- The anonymous Syriac hymn on the Cathedral of Edessa
- Pagan divinities and Christian symbols: the Tabula mundi by John of Gaza.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-221) and indexes.
- OCLC:
- 836719166
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