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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mathews, Thomas F. (Author), Muller, Norman E. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2016]
Edition:	English edition.
Subjects:	Panel painting, Greco-Roman > Egypt > Influence. Panel painting, Medieval. Panel painting, Renaissance. Icon painting > Egypt. Christian art and symbolism > To 500. Christian art and symbolism > Medieval, 500-1500. Egypt > Antiquities, Roman.

Table of Contents:

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: Pigment identification and media analysis.