Sacred stimulus : Jerusalem in the visual Christianization of Rome /
How did early Christian Rome deal with the fact that Christ was never there? Sacred Stimulus is about the effect Jerusalem had on the formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. It deals with the visual Christianization of Rome from an almost neglected perspective: no...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford Univerisity Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | How did early Christian Rome deal with the fact that Christ was never there? Sacred Stimulus is about the effect Jerusalem had on the formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. It deals with the visual Christianization of Rome from an almost neglected perspective: not in comparison to pagan art in Rome, not as reflecting the struggle with Constantinople, but rather as visual expressions of the idea of Jerusalem and its holy sites and traditions. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 200 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190874681 0190874686 9780190874667 019087466X 0190874678 9780190874674 |