Another look at the disappearing Christ: corporeal and spiritual vision in early medieval images.
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 9/1/1997
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Author: Deshman, Robert
Foremost of the exceptional ingenuity of 10th- and 11th-century Anglo-Saxon art is the presentation of a new type of Ascension iconography which portrays Christ at the moment he vanishes into heaven, with only his legs or feet visible. In traditional manuscripts, the whole body of Christ was shown as he ascended into heaven. The scholar Meyer Schapiro proposed that the new Ascension type was linked to the age-old exegetic belief that Christ had ascended to heaven by his own power and without ...
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