Roman Identity and Lived Religion - Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity

"Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for scholars of ancient history, late antique Christianity and art history"--

List of contents

1. The absence of Christian iconography and the presence of Roman cult and culture in the baptismal complex of Cuicul, Numidia; 2. The use of non-Christian imagery in baptisteries; 3. The conversion of a personification - the River Jordan in Ravenna.

About the author

STEFANIE LENK is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Art History and Art Collection at the University of Göttingen. She was Curator of the international exhibition 'Imagining the Divine. Art and the Rise of World Religions' held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017–18, Postdoctoral researcher on 'Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art' at the University of Bern in 2018-21 and Fellow at the RomanIslam Center of the University of Hamburg in 2021–22.

Product details

• Authors: Stefanie Lenk, Stefanie (Georg-August-Universitat Lenk, Lenk Stefanie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009408653
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0940865-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christianity / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, History of art / art & design styles, Christianity, History of Religion, History of Art, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Religious buildings, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Mediterranean countries, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Architecture: religious buildings