Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art - Hans Belting - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226042152 - January 15, 1997
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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 presence of the "Holy", Hans Belting traces in this volume the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture.


676 pages, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 15, 1997
ISBN13 9780226042152
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 676
Dimensions 169 × 237 × 25 mm   ·   1.25 kg
Language English  
Translator Jephcott, Edmund

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