Overview
- Nine comprehensive articles that focus upon a transcultural iconography in art history
- Methodologically innovative approaches to redefine and develop the practice of identification and classification of angelic motifs as a means to understanding meaning
- Around 130 illustrations of goddesses, gods, genii, victoriae, angels, paris, apsaras, vidyadharis, shenren, yuren, hiten, tennin, winged dragons etc.
- adharis, shenren, yuren, hiten, tennin, winged dragons etc.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (TRANSCULT)
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Book Title: Spirits in Transcultural Skies
Book Subtitle: Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West
Editors: Niels Gutschow, Katharina Weiler
Series Title: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11632-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11631-0Published: 08 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11632-7Published: 26 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-656X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-6578
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies