Likeness and Presence (1994 Belting / Jephcott), book (English ed.)

Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art (1994) is the English edition of Bild und Cult (1990 Belting), book. Translated from the German by Edmund Jephcott.

Editions

Published in Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Table of contents

Introduction -- The icon from a modern perspective and in light of its history -- Why images? : imagery and religion in late antiquity -- Heavenly images and earthly portraits : St. Luke's picture and "unpainted" originals in Rome and the Eastern Empire -- Roman funerary portraits and portraits of the saints -- The imperial image in antiquity and the problem of the Christian cult of images -- Image devotion, public relations, and theology at the end of antiquity -- Church and image : the doctrine of the church and iconoclasm --; The holy image in church decoration and a new policy of images - Pilgrims, emperors and confraternities : veneration of icons in Byzantium and Venice -- The "holy face" : legends and images in competition -- The iconostasis and the role of the icon in the liturgy and in private devotion -- "Living painting" : poetry and rhetoric in a new style of icons in the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- Statues, vessels, and signs : medieval images and relics in the West -- The icon in the civic life of Rome -- "In the Greek manner" : imported icons in the West --; Norm and freedom : Italian icons in the age of the Tuscan cities -- The madonnas of Siena : the image in urban life -- The dialogue with the image : the era of the private image at the end of the Middle Ages -- Religion and art ; the crisis of the image at the beginning of the modern age