Art and the Roman viewer : the transformation of art from the pagan world to Christianity

Author

Elsner, Jaś

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Collection

Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.

Source

Art and the Roman viewer : the transformation of art from the pagan world to Christianity. 1995, xxvi, 375 p., 85 ill. (4 col.); bibliogr.; index

ISBN

0-521-45354-2

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Examines a variety of ancient monuments, images and texts, dating from the turn of the first centuries B.C. and A.D. to the 6th c. in the light of how they were viewed, comparing the changes both in their formal characteristics and in the ways they were looked at over the period. Concludes with an examination of the process of this change from Classical naturalism towards spiritual abstraction, the genesis of a specifically Christian exegetic mode of viewing, and how it resembled and how it differed from the kinds of initiate viewing in pagan antiquity out of which it arose.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400
• Roman [style]
• Art
• Christianity
• 100-600
• Iconography
• Early Christian
• Roman Empire

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400
• Romain (art)
• Art
• Christianisme
• 100-600
• Iconographie
• Paléochrétien (art)
• Empire romain

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950701-00319136

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