Purifying Body and Soul: Late Antique Combs, their Use and Visual Culture

FOLETTI, Ivan and Gajane ACHVERDJANOVÁ. Purifying Body and Soul: Late Antique Combs, their Use and Visual Culture. In Materiality and Conversion. The Role of Material and Visual Cultures in the Christianization of the Latin West. 2020.

Basic information

Original name

Purifying Body and Soul: Late Antique Combs, their Use and Visual Culture

Authors

FOLETTI, Ivan and Gajane ACHVERDJANOVÁ

Edition

Materiality and Conversion. The Role of Material and Visual Cultures in the Christianization of the Latin West, 2020

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Combs; Late Antiquity; Christological narratives; Initiatory Rituals

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Abstract

V originále

Late antique combs are still marginalized objects in art historical research. The purpose of this intervention was to propose a first analysis of combs decorated with Christian narrative scenes. The result of this investigation, based on the function of the combs in previous centuries, on archaeological excavations and on visual comparisons, has allowed us to propose an unprecedented function for these objects. According to all the elements at our disposal, they must have been linked to Christian initiation.