Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentcheva

Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

Bissera V. Pentcheva

327 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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Today we take the word "icon" to mean "a sign," or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ...

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