The Many Gods of the Mediterranean: Water Iconographies (Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Ancient to Early Modern Art and Architecture)
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 June 2023) | Viewed by 357
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water and Divinity: The Mediterranean has always been a place of exchange for and across the religions of its neighboring people. Responding to natural powers, mythological and legendary investments, organization of trade and seafare, dangers of storms and conflict, and the promise of freedom and the notional infinity of the sea’s extension, people and religious communities often developed specific water iconographies in their cultural and sacred practices. This Special Issue seeks contributions across time focused on art, objects, and architecture from religions at home around and on the Mediterranean that involve water in ritual and iconography. Particularly welcome are proposals that consider a comparative approach between more than one religion in the context of their shared historical moments around the Mediterranean. The leading questions should be how Neptune’s legacy—the ancient heritage of water iconographies, symbolism, ritual and its afterlives in religions other than classical Greek/Roman—influenced both artistic expression and exchanges across time and place, how God(s) and water appear in specific artistic traditions around the Mediterranean across religious communities, and how those can be investigated when interlocking a cross-historical with a cross-religious perspective.
Dr. Henrike C. Lange
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Mediterranean
- water
- iconography
- religious studies
- afterlife of antiquity
- Neptune
- deities
- the Divine
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