Christus Medicus in der frühchristlichen Sarkophagskulptur : : ikonographische Studien der Sepulkralkunst des späten vierten Jahrhunderts / / von David Knipp.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 37
• Author: Knipp, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: German
• Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 212 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- FORSCHUNGSBERICHT -- ΦΩΤΙΣΜΟΣ UND DER SARKOPHAG MIT DER HEILUNG DES BLINDGEBORENEN IN SAINT-VICTOR, MARSEILLE -- DIE IKONOGRAPHIE DES MOTIVS ‘CHRISTUS HEILT DIE HÄMORRHOISSA’ UND DER SARKOPHAG VON SAN CELSO IN MAILAND -- DIE HEILUNG DES GICHTBRÜCHIGEN AM TEICH BETHESDA AUF THEODOSIANISCHEN SARKOPHAGEN -- SCHLUẞ -- ABKÜRZUNGSVERZEICHNIS -- QUELLENVERZEICHNIS -- LITERATURVERZEICHNIS -- REGISTER -- ABBILDUNGSNACHWEIS -- ABBILDUNGEN -- SUPPLEMENTS TO VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE.