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Art and the Roman Viewer : The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity Book

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Art and the Roman Viewer : The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity, Art and the Roman Viewer presents a fresh analysis of a major intellectual problem in the history of art: why did the arts of Late Antiquity move away from classical naturalism towards spiritual abstraction? Arguing from a close examination of ancient art, Art and the Roman Viewer : The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity
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  • Art and the Roman Viewer : The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity
  • Written by author Jas Elsner
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, 2/13/1997
  • Art and the Roman Viewer presents a fresh analysis of a major intellectual problem in the history of art: why did the arts of Late Antiquity move away from classical naturalism towards spiritual abstraction? Arguing from a close examination of ancient art
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Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
Pt. I Ways of Viewing in the Roman World 15
1 Viewing and "the Real": The Imagines of Philostratus and the Tabula of Cebes 21
2 Viewing and Society: Images, the View and the Roman House 49
3 Viewing and the Sacred: Pagan, Christian and the Vision of God 88
4 Viewing and Identity: The Travels of Pausanias; or, A Greek Pilgrim in the Roman World 125
Pt. II The Transformation of Roman Art from Augustus to Justinian 157
5 Rejections on a Roman Revolution: Transformation in the Image and Conception of the Emperor 159
6 From the Literal to the Symbolic: A Transformation in the Nature of Roman Religion and Roman Religious Art 190
Pt. III Epilogue: Modulations of Change 247
7 "The Truth within These Empty Figures": the Genesis of Christian Visual Exegesis 249
Bibliography 288
Notes 311
Index 371


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