ISBN:
3319116312
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (16485 KB, 221 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Series Statement:
Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
Parallel Title:
Print version Spirits in Transcultural Skies : Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters in art and architecture. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area, documenting a practice found in nearly every corner of the world. Its transcultural approach aims at gaining insights into cultural dynamics and consistent networks and defining new historical mindmaps; it examines reciprocal effects and aspects of interwovenness in art and architecture with a view to reconceptualizing their established realms. The collection opens a window on a phenomenon in the history of art and architecture that has never before been considered from this perspective. The book focuses on a transcultural iconography of aerial spirits, goddesses and gods in art history, pursuing a methodologically innovative approach in order to redefine and develop the practice of identification and classification of motifs as a means to understanding meaning, and attempting to challenge the categories defined by academic disciplines.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Transcultural Journeys; Messengers and Protectors; Cloud-Borne Beings and Controllers of Rain; Ethereal Escorts in Godly Realms; Entangled Angelology; References; The Goddess of Victory in Greek and Roman Art; The Greek Goddess: Nike; The Roman Goddess: Victoria; The Goddess of Victory in Roman Syria; Cross-cultural Developments in the Levant; Nike/Victoria in the Local Imagery; Image Adaptation in the Context of Local Religious Concepts: Victoria-Tyche-Gad; Nike/Victoria: A Powerful Transcultural Image; References
Description / Table of Contents:
The Iconography of Zoroastrian Angelology in Sasanian Art and ArchitectureZoroastrian Angels: Term and Function; Sasanians and the Term ``Sasanian Art´´; The Concept of Spiritual Beings or the So-Called ``Angels´´ in Zoroastrianism; Zoroastrian Angelology; Av. ama spnta (MP. amesāspand, [a]mahraspand); Av. frauuai- (MP. frawahr); Av. yazata (MP. yazad); Angels in Sasanian Art: Notes on Their Iconography; Yazatas Depicted in Sasanian Toreutics and Rock Reliefs; Dancing Girls; Frauuais Depicted in Sasanian Rock Reliefs and Toreutics; Winged figures of Tāq-e Bostān; Winged Figures in Toreutics
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionReferences; Angels as Agents of Transfer Between Hebrew Origins, Byzantium, and Western Europe: Marienberg in South Tyrol as a Case Study; Introduction; Iconographical Translations: Byzantine Models for Christ in Majesty and Angels; Textual Sources Relating to Angels of Biblical and Byzantine Origin; Angels in the Book of Revelation; Pseudo-Dionysius, the Byzantine Liturgy, and Their Adaption in Western Christianity; Spaces of Transition: Angels in Threshold Situations; Angels as Psychopomps for the Deceased; Angels, the Tabernacle, and the Ark of the Covenant
Description / Table of Contents:
The Angels as Role Models for the Vita AngelicaReferences; The Dragon in Transcultural Skies: Its Celestial Aspect in the Medieval Islamic World; References; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Winged Immortals and Heavenly Beings Across the East Asian Skies; Introduction; Feathered Men and Winged Immortal Beings of the Han Dynasty; Heavenly Beings in China; Indian-Type Heavenly Beings; Southern-Type Heavenly Beings; Winged Immortals and Southern-Type Heavenly Beings in Northern Monuments; Concluding Remarks About Chinese Winged Immortals and Heavenly Beings
Description / Table of Contents:
Heavenly Beings in Korea and JapanConclusion; References; How Celestial Spirits Became Winged in the Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Sixth to Nineteenth Century); The Urban Culture of the Kathmandu Valley; Notes About Transcultural Flows; Aerial Spirits: Wisdom-Bearers, Celestial Musicians, and Angels; Genii of Roman and Sasanian Provenance; The Background of Aerial Spirits: Gupta-Period Origins; The Arrival of Gupta-Period Wisdom-Bearers and Bird Men in Nepal; Wisdom Bearers and Bird Men on Portals and Lintels, Eleventh to Sixteenth Century; Wingless Wisdom-Bearers and Bird Men
Description / Table of Contents:
Winged Spirits: Diverse Roman, Sasanian, Islamic and Christian Sources
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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