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Author Thunø, Erik, author.

Title The apse mosaic in early medieval Rome : time, network, and repetition / Erik Thunø, Rugers University
Published New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Repetition; 1.1. Figures and Inscriptions; A Repetitive Formula; Earlier Apse Mosaics; Later Apse Mosaics; Outside Rome; 1.2. Apse Mosaics and Relics; Building for Saints; Golden Letters and Dazzling Interiors; Other Early Medieval Apse Mosaics; Multiplying the Saints; Conclusion: Beyond Time?; Chapter Two Transformation; 2.1. "Citizens with the Saints"; Paradise in Mosaic; Gazing at the Saints; A Heavenly Society
Ecclesia Romana and Christ the Cornerstone2.2. Between Present and Future; Elders and Creatures; Apocalyptic Ecclesiology; Narrative and Iconic; 2.3. Visualizing Christ; Shifting Guises; Cornerstone in Text and Building; Christ in the Clouds: A Second Coming?; Light and Resurrection; "Church Clad in a Cloud of Flesh"; 2.4. Word Made Present; Apse Mosaics and Theophanies; Pope as Creator of Light; Visual Script; Conclusion; Chapter Three Incorporation; 3.1. Imagery and Ritual; Heavenly and Earthly Liturgies; Visual Interactions with the Ritual; Christ as Mediator; 3.2. Prayer and Seeing
"Towards the East"Apse Mosaic as Compass; Vision and Image; God's Ocular Embrace; 3.3. Christ, Saints, and the Altar; Cornerstone and Sacrifice; Intercession; Pope as Bridge to Salvation; Saints in the Liturgy; Relics and Altar; 3.4. House of Living Stones; Mosaic as Material Metaphor; Excursus: S. Prassede and the Heavenly Jerusalem; Conclusion; Chapter Four Networking; 4.1. Martyrs and Inscriptions under Pope Damasus (366-384); The Damasian Epigrams and the Collective Body of Martyrs; Relics and History; Letters for the Unlettered; 4.2. Uniting the Living with the Dead
From Cemetery to ChurchDiversifying the Body; 4.3. Out of Time; Invasion of God's Time; Repetition and Copy; Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; Introduction; 1. Repetition: Saints, Popes, and Golden Texts; 2. Transformation: From Material Church to Spiritual Body; 3. Incorporation: Becoming a Living Stone; 4. Networking: Building a Communio Sanctorum; Afterword: Meaning and Presence; Bibliography; Index; Plates
Summary "This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thunø proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition, and vision"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Mosaics, Medieval -- Italy -- Rome
Apses (Architecture) -- Italy -- Rome
Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Rome -- Medieval, 500-1500
Symbolism in architecture -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
ART -- Ceramics.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics.
Apses (Architecture)
Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval
Mosaics, Medieval
Symbolism in architecture
Kirchenbau
Apsis
Mosaik
Italy -- Rome
Rom
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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