Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. - ELSNER, J.,
the transformation of art from the Pagan world to Christianity
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'Like many art historians before him, Elsner sets out in this book to explain the well-known stylistic transformationof art in the Roman Empire from an essentially naturalistic and illusionistic style in the first century to an increasingly abstract and symbolic style in Late Antiquity and the Early Christian period. Because ?meaning depends as much on what the viewer brings to interpretation as it does on the actual object he or she interprets?, the most useful key to explaining this change, he proposes, ...
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1995 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 375 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521453542 ISBN-13: 9780521453547Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1995. XXVI,375p. ills.(B&W as well as a few full colour phtographs). Original black cloth with dust wrappers. Dus wrappers near tail spine slightly wrinkled. 'Like many art historians before him, Elsner sets ou...