文档介绍：The Truth in Painting: Iconoclasm and Identity in Early-Medieval Art
Charles Barber
Speculum, Vol. 72, No. 4. (Oct., 1997), pp. 1019-1036.
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Tue Sep 11 09:02:54 2007
The Truth in Painting:
Iconoclasm and Identity
in Early- Medieval Art
By Charles Barber
It is now forty years since the publication of one of the defining papers on early-
medieval art, Ernst Kitzinger's "The Cult of Images in the Age before Icono-
clasm."l This article remains a deeply influential study on early-medieval attitudes
toward visual culture, arguing, as it does, that the political crises of the later sixth
century helped produce a turn toward a new function for religious imagery as