Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze

ISBN-13: 9780367697563 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 214 str.

Andrew Paterson

Opis

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which resemble three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Greco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel-paintings depicting non-Christian deities.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Production of Sacred Portraits (i): Techniques and Stylistic Variation 2. The Production of Sacred Portraits (ii): The Visualisation of the Prototype 3. The Reception of Sacred Portraits (i): Functions and Meanings of the Depicted Gaze 4. The Reception of Sacred Portraits (ii): Their Role in Spiritual Practice Conclusion

O autorze

Andrew Paterson is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.