02088nam a22002417a 4500 20260308213729.0 260308b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780226042152 : Technical Bureau : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi : TB3813 : 27/02/2026 704.948 BEL Belting, Hans. ; Edmund Jephcott Likeness and presence : a history of the image before the era of art. / Hans Belting. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994. xxiv, 651p. : 24cm. 4703 Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture. Likeness and Presence looks at the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred images, and presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history. "A rarity within its genre—an art-historical analysis of iconography which is itself iconoclastic. . . . One of the most intellectually exciting and historically grounded interpretations of Christian iconography." —Graham Howes, Times Literary Supplement "Likeness and Presence offers the best source to survey the facts of what European Christians put in their churches. . . . An impressively detailed contextual analysis of medieval objects." —Robin Cormack, New York Times Book Review "I cannot begin to describe the richness or the imaginative grandeur of Hans Belting's book. . . . It is a work that anyone interested in art, or in the history of thought about art, should regard as urgent reading. It is a tremendous achievement."—Arthur C. Danto, New Republic Saints-Cult Christian art Symbolism-Medieval, 500-1500 Hans Belting BOOK 67146 67146 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-03-08 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 4703.00 1 2 704.948 BEL 31398 2026-05-12 15:11:54 2026-03-10 2026-03-08 BOOK