Imperial Rome and Christian triumph : the art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 / Jaś Elsner.

Main entry:

Elsner, Jaś.

Title & Author:

Imperial Rome and Christian triumph : the art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 / Jaś Elsner.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Description:

xvi, 297 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Series:

Oxford history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- pt. I. Images and Power. Ch. 2. A Visual Culture. Ch. 3. Art and Imperial Power -- pt. II. Images and Society. Ch. 4. Art and Social Life. Ch. 5. Centre and Periphery. Ch. 6. Art and Death -- pt. III. Images and Transformation. Ch. 7. Art and the Past: Antiquarian Eclecticism. Ch. 8. Art and Religion. Ch. 9. Art and Culture: Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art -- Afterword: Some Futures of Christian Art.

Summary:

This book offers an exciting new approach to the twin themes of the arts of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christian art. Beginning in the second century, with its rich revival of ancient learning and artistic practices, and ending in the fifth with Christian narrative and liturgical cycles and the pilgrimage arts, this book explores the art of the Roman Empire by tackling two inter-related periods of internal transformation: the 'Second Sophist' (c. ad 100-300), and the era of late antiquity (c. ad 250-450). For the first time, these two themes are treated together, throwing a more penetrating light on the radical change undergone by the empire in becoming a Christian imperium. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, Elsner presents a fresh and challenging account of a rich cultural crucible in which many developments of later European art had their origins.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

019284265X
9780192842657
0192842013 (pbk.)
9780192842015 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Roman.
Art, Early Christian.
Art romain.
Art paléochrétien.
Christliche Kunst
Kunst
Romeinse keizertijd.
Christendom.
Roman art.
Römisches Reich
Rome Antiquities.
Rome 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire)

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Oxford history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212304
Call No.: N5760 .E4 1998
Status: Available

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