Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome

ISBN-13: 9780190874650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Galit Noga-Banai

Recenzje

When words fail images step up. Sacred Stimulus turns a finely-tuned ear to the faint echoes of a once strident conversation. In the visual polemics that Galit Noga-Banai detects in such works as the Samagher Casket, the Bethesda sarcophagi, and the apse mosaic of S. Pudenziana, she recognizes the designs of Roman patrons and artists intent on relocating Jerusalem to the banks of the Tiber. What surfaces is an adventurous romp through the loca sancta of two preeminent late antique cities and a new way of seeing familiar things.

O autorze

Galit Noga-Banai is of the History of Art department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries (OUP 2008).