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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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Aristotle and Byzantine Iconoclasm

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2013
The defense of icons shifted gradually from a theory of mimesis to Aristotelian symbolism; this reflected not a revival of learning but arguments developed in the debate itself and hinted at already by Constantine V and at the Council of 787.
Thalia Anagnostopoulos
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Ancestral Connections: Re-Evaluating Concepts of Superimpositioning and Vandalism in Rock Art Studies

Open Archaeology
The aim of this article is to comprehend the significance of superimpositions as social practices and processes and to deconstruct how notions of superimpositions and vandalism have been used in rock art studies.
Motta Ana Paula, Hampson Jamie
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Art, Trent, and Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment”

Religions, 2012
Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s most famous paintings, completed in 1542. Greatly admired, it was also criticized for the frontal nudity of some of the figures.
John O'Malley
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How Love for the Image Cast out Fear of It in Early Christianity

Religions, 2017
Iconoclastic and iconophilic impulses have long vied for pre-eminence in Christianity, coming to one particularly fraught crisis point in the Byzantine Iconomachy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Natalie Carnes
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Kenosis, Economy, Inscription

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2013
Part of a roundtable on Julia Kristeva's The Severed Head:   Chapters Five and Six of Julia Kristeva’s The Severed ...
Elaine Miller
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‘A dialogue about the art of portraiture’ Originally published as ‘Gespräch von der Bildniskunst’, Österreichische Rundschau, Volume 6, 1906, 502—516, and republished: Julius Schlosser, Präludien Vorträge und Aufsätze, Berlin: Bard 1927, 227—247. Translated with an introduction by Karl Johns [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2011
In an unusually popular and readable dialogue form, Schlosser alludes to the classical education he takes for granted in any reader approaching his favourite ‘thorny’ questions from aesthetics and history.
Julius Schlosser
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Writing about the ymage in fifteenth-century England [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2020
Beginning in the late 14th century and continuing through the 15th century, religious reform movements in England made the use of images a matter of fierce dispute.
Marjorie Munsterberg
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Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth, 2023
Moen OM.
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Hearing the Past through the Sonic Icon

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 394-398, June 2026.
Reyhan Durmaz
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