Envisioning worlds in late antique art : new perspectives on abstraction and symbolism in late-Roman and early-Byzantine visual culture (c. 300-600)

Weitere Verfasser: Olovsdotter, Cecilia
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; : Boston :. De Gruyter, 2018
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Late antique art and modernist vision /
  • Sarah Bassett
  • The other Hippocampus: neuroscience and early Christian art /
  • John Onians
  • Image and meta-image: Byzantine aesthetics and Orthodox faith /
  • Anne Karahan
  • Abstraction in late antique art /
  • Bente Kiilerich
  • The twelve-silver-column programme in the Martyrium Church in Jerusalem /
  • Beat Brenk
  • Defining space: abstraction, symbolism and allegory on display in early Byzantine art /
  • Rainer Warland
  • Architecture and the spheres of the universe in late antique art /
  • Cecilia Olovsdotter
  • Christus Verus Sol - Christus Imperator: religious and imperial symbolism in the mosaics of the rotunda in Thessaloniki /
  • Hjalmar Torp
  • A "modern myth": the sixth-century starting date of the "Eastern" representation of Christ's ascension /
  • Josef Engemann
  • Symbolic aspects of the mosaics in the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha /
  • Livia Bevilacqua.