Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Sile

By Barbara Baert

The focus of these essays is the impact of wind, pneuma, and movement in medieval and early modern iconography on art historical hermeneutics. What can wind, pneuma, and movement tell us about the visual medium as such? Wind joins, flows, links, changes direction--in short, the wind is capricious. In its capriciousness wind embodies

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042932503
• ISBN13: 9789042932500
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.