Invisible God - The Earliest Christians on Art

Zusatztext Some of the author's best discussions are those to be found within the general framework. He is an authority on early Christian lamps ... Likewise on the vexed question of the San Sebastiano site and its development there is a clear and helpful discussion. The learning displayed throughout is immense, and the organization of such a vast amount of material is achieved without sacrificing the clarity of structure which makes the book easy to read. It integrates the results of recent work in an impressive manner, mostly in the form of notes ... an interesting and informative book. Klappentext 'The Invisible God is an important book, a fresh and long-needed reexamination of a range of issues in early Christian art and a challenge...to a number of prevailing assumptions in the field. It deserves the attention of classicists, students of art, historians of late antiquity, and patristic scholars.'New England Classical Newsletter and Journal Zusammenfassung In this text, the author refutes the traditional assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus produced no art. He asserts that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they produced art to decorate them.

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• Authors: Paul Corby Finney, Paul Corby (Associate Professor of Ancient Finney, Paul Corby (Associate Professor of Ancient History Finney, Finney Paul Corby
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9780195113815
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511381-5
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Earliest Christians on Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / History, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Medieval style, Religious and ceremonial art, ART / Movements / Medieval