By Moshe Barasch,Luci Serrano

ISBN-10: 0814711723

ISBN-13: 9780814711729

ISBN-10: 0814712142

ISBN-13: 9780814712146

Over the centuries, eu debate concerning the nature and standing of pictures of God and sacred figures has usually dissatisfied the status quo and shaken societies to their middle. Out of this debate, an identifiable doctrine has emerged of the picture commonly and of the divine picture particularly. This interesting paintings concentrates on those ancient arguments, from the interval of overdue Antiquity as much as the good and vintage defenses of pictures by means of St. John of Damascus and Theodore of Studion. Icon extends past the speedy matters of faith, philosophy, aesthetics, background, and paintings, to have interaction them all.

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