The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome: Time, Network, and Repetition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107069909)

This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thun proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition and vision.

Author: Erik Thunø
ISBN-10: 1107069904
ISBN-13: 9781107069909
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2015
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2016