Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular CultureMiles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Hermeneutics and the History of Image Users | 15 |
FourthCentury Roman Churches | 41 |
Images of Women in FourteenthCentury Tuscan Painting | 63 |
Vision and the SixteenthCentury Protestant | 95 |
Image and Language in Contemporary Culture | 127 |
A Theory | 139 |
Notes | 157 |
| 193 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
advertising images apse architecture articulated aspect beauty body Byzantine Byzantine Architecture catacombs Catholic reform century Christ christian worship contemporary Counter-Reformation culture decoration depicted discourse Early Christian Early Church emotional example figures formulated Foucault fourteenth fourteenth-century fourth fourth-century Christians Gesù Giotto Grossmünster hermeneutics historians historical history of ideas human iconoclastic identify imagery images of women individual interest interpretation Jesuit Krautheimer language users linguistic liturgy Luther's Mary Magdalene media images medieval Meditations messages received Michel Foucault modern mosaic painting participation person perspective physical existence Pietro Cavallini political popular preaching primarily Princeton Protestant reform religious images Roland Barthes role Roman Catholic Rome Rudolf Arnheim Saint Santa Costanza Santa Pudenziana scenes scriptural Scrovegni Chapel sixteenth-century social subjective consciousness symbolic texts and images theological tion understand universalis University Press values verbal texts viewer Virgin vision visual evidence visual experience visual images woman words York Zwingli