Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art - Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking

"Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking proposes a new approach to the enduring question of how best to see and understand the art of late antiquity"--

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Moderns: 1. Exploring the 'Dark Continent': Franz Wickhoff, Alois Riegl, and the first definitions of late antiqute art; 2. Rome on the Danube: late antique art and Austrian identity; 3. East meets West: archaeology, art history, and the crystallization of late antique art; 4. Building vocabulary in the 'Epoch of the Great Spiritual'; Part II. Ancients: 5. The styles of mimesis; 6. Storytelling and the 'illusive similitude of life'; 7. Ceremonial images and the 'amplification of good things'; 8. Portraits civic and sacred; 9. Conclusion: an art of persuasion.

About the author

Sarah Bassett is Associate Professor of Art History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Constantinople (2022). Her research and writing interests include late antique urbanism, collecting and display in the ancient world, and the historiography of late antique and Byzantine art.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Bassett, Sarah (Indiana University Bassett, Bassett Sarah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009466325
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946632-5
• No. of pages: 257
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / General, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Medieval style, Byzantine style