{"product_id":"9781419767579-elysium-a-visual-history-of-angelology","title":"Simon Ed - Elysium A Visual History Of Angelology - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art religion and literature from scholar Ed Simon writer for The Millions. Ineffable invisible inscrutable angels are enduring creatures across Judaism Christianity and Islam and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture angels are often reduced to the most gauzy sentimental and saccharine of images: fat babies with wings and guardians with robes halos and harps. By contrast in scripture whenever one of the heavenly choirs appears before a prophet or patriarch they first declare Fear not! for terror would be the most appropriate initial reaction to these otherworldly beings. Angels are often not what we d expect but it's precisely in that transcendent encounter that something of the strangeness of existence can be conveyed. Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a follow - up volume to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology offering an account of the angelic hierarchies as they ve been understood across centuries and cultures and of the individual personages such as the archangels Michael Gabriel and Uriel who have marked the mythology of the West. Includes Color Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Elysium A Visual History Of Angelology\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Simon Ed\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Abrams\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781419767579\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 400 Pages, Full-Color Illustrations Throughout\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: History Of Art \/ Art \u0026amp; Design Styles","brand":"Simon Ed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49616382099761,"sku":"IN-G-9781419767579","price":32.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781419767579.jpg?v=1724474363","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781419767579-elysium-a-visual-history-of-angelology","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}