This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which resemble three other well-established genres of 'sacred portrait' also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Greco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel-paintings depicting non-Christian deities.
mai 2024, env. 212 pages, Routledge Research in Art and Religion, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-0-367-69758-7