Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean - Hardcover

 
9781108690706: Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 110869070X ISBN 13: 9781108690706
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean – Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin.

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About the Author

ANGELIKI LYMBEROPOULOU is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University. She is the editor, with Rembrandt Duits, of Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe (2013) and of Cross-Cultural Interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204-1669. Whose Mediterranean is it Anyway? (2018).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
110869070X
ISBN 13 
9781108690706
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
936
Editor
Lymberopoulou Angeliki