0224 "The Image of Adam’s Glory": Observations on the Early Christian Tradition of Luminosity as Iconic Garment

Bogdan G. Bucur; Vladimir Ivanovici

doi:10.11588/riha.2019.2.70048

0224 "The Image of Adam’s Glory"

Observations on the Early Christian Tradition of Luminosity as Iconic Garment

Bogdan G. Bucur (Author)
Vladimir Ivanovici (Author)

Vladimir Ivanovici is a lecturer at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Early Medieval Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. He studied ancient history and archaeology (BA, MA, PhD), before obtaining a PhD in art history from the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome and a summer fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Center in Washington, DC. He is the author of Manipulating Theophany: Light and Ritual in North Adriatic Architecture (ca. 400–ca. 800), Berlin 2016 and of a number of articles. His research explores the various manners used to materialise the divine in Late Antiquity, with a focus on the living body as theophanic medium.

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The imagery of the "radiant body" and "luminous garment" occurs frequently in early Christian references to the Edenic state of Adam and its partial reinstatement by Moses, Jesus, and numerous saintly (usually ascetic) figures. This article offers a synthetic presentation of these traditions, sketching out its main articulations, its biblical-exegetical foundations, its points of continuity with the apocalyptic traditions of the Second Temple Era and parallels with the Rabbinic tradition.

0224 "The Image of Adam’s Glory"

Observations on the Early Christian Tradition of Luminosity as Iconic Garment

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