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The Invisible God : the Earliest Christians on Art.

This treatise refutes the assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus did not produce art. It shows that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they started to produce art as decoration.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finney, Paul Corby
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Abbreviations; 1 The History of Interpretation; 2 The Apologists' Attack on Greek Art: History and Literature; 3 The Content of the Attack on Greek Art; 4 The Emperor's Image; 5 Christianity Before 200: Invisibility and Adaptation; 6 The Earliest Christian Art; 7 Invisible Divinity and Visible Religion; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index.