UID:
almafu_9959230053302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxviii, 319 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0-19-773964-4
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1-280-44341-3
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9786610443413
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0-19-535956-9
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1-4237-5854-4
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This treatise refutes the assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus did not produce art. It shows that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they started to produce art as decoration.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1994.
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Contents; Abbreviations; 1 The History of Interpretation; 2 The Apologists' Attack on Greek Art: History and Literature; 3 The Content of the Attack on Greek Art; 4 The Emperor's Image; 5 Christianity Before 200: Invisibility and Adaptation; 6 The Earliest Christian Art; 7 Invisible Divinity and Visible Religion; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-508252-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195082524.001.0001
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