Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art by Hans Belting, Edmund Jephcott

Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Hans Belting, Edmund Jephcott

676 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as"art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presenceof the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the longhistory of the sacral image and its c...

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