Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts.
- A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine
- Comprised of essays from experts in the field that integrate the newer, historiographical research into 'the canon' of established scholarship
- Exposes the historical, geographical and cultural continuities and interactions in the visual arts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world
- Covers an extensive range of topics, including the effect that converging cultures in late antiquity had on art, the cultural identities that can be observed by looking at difference of tradition in visual art, and the variance of illuminations in holy books
List of Contributors.
List of Illustrations.
Series Editor’s Preface.
Editor’s Acknowledgments.
Acknowledgments to Sources.
Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean.
Part I: Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art.
1. The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style: Jás Elsner.
2. Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts: Annabel Jane Wharton.
3. Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia: Anna Gonosová.
4. Dionysiac Motifs: Richard Ettinghausen.
Part II: Continuitiesl£+
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