Emperor, Empress, and the Divine in San Vitale and the Binyang Central Cave
This essay compares historically unrelated religiopolitical iconographic programs executed in Byzantine Empire and Northern Wei China of the sixth century, and points out the common mechanism, through which these two cultures made use of religious imagery to promote imperial authority. They deployed...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
[2020]
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Buddhist Christian studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 40, Pages: 369-384 |
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Justinian I Byzantine Empire, Emperor 482-565
/ San Vitale (Ravenna)
/ Apse
/ Mural painting
/ Trinity
/ Iconography
/ Religious policy
/ Longmen-Grotten (Luoyang)
/ Nördliche Weidynastie
/ Buddha 563 BC-483 BC
/ Sculpture
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| RelBib Classification: | BL Buddhism BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBK Europe (East) KBM Asia KDF Orthodox Church |
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Binyang Cave
B Tanluan B Eusebius of Caesarea B Emperor Justinian B Emperor Xuanwu B San Vitale |
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