Spirits in Transcultural Skies Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gutschow, Niels (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Weiler, Katharina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Cultural studies.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Studies.

The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters in art and architecture. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area, documenting a practice found in nearl...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Goddess of Victory in Greek and Roman Art
• The Iconography of Zoroastrian Angelology in Sasanian Art and Architecture
• Angels as Agents of Transfer between Hebrew Origins, Byzantium and Western Europe. Marienberg in South Tyrol as a Case Study
• The Dragon in Transcultural Skies: Its Celestial Aspect in the Early and Medieval Islamic World
• Winged Immortals and Heavenly Beings Across the East Asian Skies
• How Celestial Spirits Became Winged in the Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Sixth to Nineteenth Century)
• Solomonic Angels in a Mughal Sky: The Wall Paintings of the Kala Burj at the Lahore Fort Revisited and Their Reception in Later South Asian and Qajar Art
• Ethereal Imagery: Symbolic Attributes in the Art and Architecture of India
• Entangled Visualities: Celestial Beings in Early Twentieth Century Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal
• Epilogue.