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Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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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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