Pygmalion’s Power : : Romanesque Sculpture, the Senses, and Religious Experience / / Thomas E. A. Dale.
Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 21 color/113 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Living Statues: The Crucifix and Throne of Wisdom
- 2 The Naked and the Nude: From Theological Ideal to Sexual Fantasy
- 3 Sculpted Portraits: Convention and Real Presence
- 4 Beautiful Deformity and Deformed Beauty: The Monstrous and Deformed
- 5 Renewing the Temple: Living Stones and Embodied Theophanies
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index