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Dr. Miles is a past president of the AAR, and her work (especially Image as Insight) is widely recognized as a pioneering effort in the study of the hermeneutical implications of religious art.

Her address will examine visual incentives to the imitation of Christ in fourteenth and fifteenth century Italy when scenes from the life of Christ urged the viewer to participate in the events of Christ's life. Slides will demonstrate that artistic choices were governed by particular devotional interests and goals in different settings. In the conclusion, the historic roles of images, marked by different theologies and theories of vision, will be contrasted with present uses of vision in North American media culture.

Special Session: The Bible and Visual Art, Denver, 2001

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