Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend has a threefold design: exploration of literary sources; reviews of pertinent archeology; and accounts of individual and cyclical illustrations. One hundred and thirty-two topics in the iconography of the bishop of ancient Hippo, both historical and legendary, are ascertained and analyzed; the historical and archeological background of Augustine's career, cult, and monastic influence are surveyed; four Augustinian cycles are examined; and various individual portraits of Augustine are studied.
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"Augustine left behind five million words of his writings--writings that give us one kind of vivid sense of his person. But it was left to following generations to turn him back into a visible presence of a sort with the tools of the visual arts. Augustine in Iconography is that rarity of scholarly works, an almost completely original book. It begins with an exemplary assemblage of the source materials on which later tradition erected its imaginations of Augustine and his life. There follows a handsomely illustrated and remarkably comprehensive collection of studies of the major artifacts and traditions that gave visual form to the image of Augustine through the Middle Ages and into modern times. The result is a book equally of great use to the student of Augustine and the student of art history, but one so well conceived and produced as to be of great interest to a wide range of readers." -- James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, and world-renowned Augustine scholar
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