Elysium: A Visual History Of Angelology Ed Simon Abrams Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

A Gloriously Illustrated Overview Of Angels Across Art Religion And Literatureineffable Invisible Inscrutable—Angels Are Enduring Creatures Judaism Christianity Islam Human Experiences The Divine As Mediated By Spiritual Emissaries An Aspect Almost Every Religious Tradition In Popular Culture Often Reduced To Most Gauzy Sentimental Saccharine Images: Fat Babies With Wings Guardians Robes Halos Harps Contrast Scripture Whenever One Heavenly Choirs Appears Before Prophet Or Patriarch They First Declare “Fear Not!” For Terror Would Be Appropriate Initial Reaction These Otherworldly Beings Not What We’d Expect But It’s Precisely That Transcendent Encounter Something Strangeness Existence Can Conveyed Elysium: Visual History Angelology Is Follow-Up Volume Pandemonium: Demonology Like Earlier Title This Book Offers Account Angelic Hierarchies They’ve Been Understood Centuries Cultures Individual Personages Such Archangels Michael Gabriel Uriel Who Have Marked Mythology West Σελίδες: 400 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1019 Διαστάσεις: 25 1X25 1Cm