'Christus Medicus' in der frühchristlichen Sarkophagskulptur

Ikonographische Studien zur Sepulkralkunst des späten vierten Jahrhunderts
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-10862-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Deutsch, Band 37, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

This study deals with the representation of Christ's Healing Miracles in early Christian sepulchral art from Provence and Northern Italy.
It sees the imagery through the contemporary exegetical writings and tries thus to uncover new strata of symbolic significance in early Christian art. The aim of the work is to reveal the complex theological concepts reflected in the relief decoration of a small number of late fourth-century sarcophagi and to cast thus light upon the spiritual climate of the sphere the persons who commissioned them were part of.
It also links the narrative structure of representations of medical treatment and miracle scenes in ancient art with the Christian images and establishes new formal and iconographic connexions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knipp, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Philip David Ezra Knipp, Ph.D. (1995) in Art History, University of Hamburg, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He has published articles on early Christian and Byzantine art including An "Early Christian" Terracotta Altar, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes LIX, 1996.