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The art of empire : Christian art in its imperial context /
In recent years, art historians such as Johannes Deckers (Picturing the Bible, 2009) have argued for a significant transition in fourth- and fifth-century images of Jesus following the conversion of Constantine. Broadly speaking, they perceive the image of a peaceful, benevolent shepherd transformed...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Allusions to imperial rituals in fourth-century Christian art / Robin M. Jensen
- 2. Revisiting the emperor mystique: the traditio legis as an anti-imperial image / Lee M. Jefferson
- 3. The memory of "peter" in fourth-century Rome : church, mausoleum, and Jupiter on the / Via Praenestina
- 4. From victim to victor : developing an iconography of suffering in early Christian art / Felicity Harley-McGowan
- 5. The good shepherd and the enthroned ruler : a reconsideration of imperial iconography in the
- early church / Jennifer Awes Freeman
- 6. Representing ritual, Christianizing the Pompa Circensis : imperial spectacle at Rome in a
- Christianizing empire / Jacob A. Latham
- 7. Was the presence of Christ in statues? The challenge of divine media for a Jewish Roman God / Michael Peppard
- 8. The visualization of the imperial cult in late antique Constantinople / Katherine Marsengill
- 9. Does the Hinton St. Mary mosaic depict Christ? / Adam Levine.