The dawn of Christian art in panel paintings and icons

In a study of sixty neglected panel paintings from Roman Egypt, the authors present evidence for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: J. Paul Getty Museum (-)
Otros Autores: Mathews, Thomas F., autor (autor), Muller, Norman E. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum cop. 2016
Edición:English edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The survival of ancient panel paintings
  • Sites of discovery, places of cult
  • Panel paintings in the primary sources
  • Restructuring and Hellenizing the Egyptian pantheon
  • Icon stories and visions
  • The iconography of Mary
  • The cult of Templon icons in Constantinople
  • Egyptian icon cult and the decree of the Council of Nicaea II
  • Christian art, East and West
  • Appendix A: Pigment identification and media analysis
  • Appendix B: Media analysis
  • Appendix C: Corpus of panel paintings from ancient Egypt.