Spirits in Transcultural Skies Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West / [electronic resource] :
edited by Niels Gutschow, Katharina Weiler.
- Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015.
- 1 online resource (XXII, 221 p. 121 illus., 80 illus. in color.)
- Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, 2191-656X .
The Goddess of Victory in Greek and Roman Art -- The Iconography of Zoroastrian Angelology in Sasanian Art and Architecture -- Angels as Agents of Transfer between Hebrew Origins, Byzantium and Western Europe. Marienberg in South Tyrol as a Case Study -- The Dragon in Transcultural Skies: Its Celestial Aspect in the Early and Medieval Islamic World -- Winged Immortals and Heavenly Beings Across the East Asian Skies -- How Celestial Spirits Became Winged in the Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Sixth to Nineteenth Century) -- Solomonic Angels in a Mughal Sky: The Wall Paintings of the Kala Burj at the Lahore Fort Revisited and Their Reception in Later South Asian and Qajar Art -- Ethereal Imagery: Symbolic Attributes in the Art and Architecture of India -- Entangled Visualities: Celestial Beings in Early Twentieth Century Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal -- Epilogue.