Hierarchies of Vision: Fra Angelico's Coronation of the Virgin from San Domenico, Fiesole

Rubin, Patricia

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“…9 The Dominican, Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae, written more than eight hundred years after Augustine, develops the debate as to whether the image of Christ should be worshipped with the highest degree of adoration, referred to as latria (devotion to the Holy Trinity, held to be above all other forms of worship). With reference to Aristotle's work on memory Aquinas wrote:…”

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“…The theology of images was later deeply embedded in Dominican teaching and thought, enabling the progress from corporeal sight (seeing with the 'eyes of the body') to spiritual perception (understanding with the 'eyes of the mind'). 9 The Dominican, Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae, written more than eight hundred years after Augustine, develops the debate as to whether the image of Christ should be worshipped with the highest degree of adoration, referred to as latria (devotion to the Holy Trinity, held to be above all other forms of worship). With reference to Aristotle's work on memory Aquinas wrote:…”

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On the Threshold

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2015

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This short paper (adapted from a part of my MA dissertation at King's College London) explores the theology of images with reference to the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, or, more precisely, to the painted image of Christ. The essay will aim to penetrate the theological theme of threshold -to show what it means to talk of crossing such thresholds and what it means to interact with such space. The thesis is that Christ literally becomes space, in timeless representation -the Incarnation drawing attention to the invisible God's own visibility in the image of Christ.

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Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Gill

2014

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From earliest times, angels have been seen as instruments of salvation and retribution, agents of revelation, and harbingers of hope. In effect, angels are situated at the intersections of diverse belief structures and philosophical systems. In this book, Meredith J. Gill examines the role of angels in medieval and Renaissance conceptions of heaven. She considers the character of Renaissance angelology as distinct from the medieval theological traditions that informed it and from which it emerged. Tracing the iconography of angels in text and in visual form, she also uncovers the philosophical underpinnings of medieval and Renaissance definitions of angels and their nature. From Dante through Pico della Mirandola, from the images of angels depicted by Fra Angelico to those painted by Raphael and his followers, angels, Gill argues, are the touchstones and markers of the era's intellectual self-understanding, and its classical revival, theological doctrines, and artistic imagination.

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Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

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Hierarchies of Vision: Fra Angelico's Coronation of the Virgin from San Domenico, Fiesole

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