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

It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Olovsdotter, Cecilia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 univers 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.