Author: Earl Baldwin Smith
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Earl Baldwin Smith
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230158921
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Languages : en
Pages : 96

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...of these two scenes, in both of which Christ, most oddly, sits upon a globe.4 As the Widow's Mite the scene on the Milan book covers5 is similar, save for the globe, to the rendering of the same scene in a mosaic of S. Apollinare Nuovo at Ravenna (Fig. 135). In this sixth century mosaic the widow stands at the left of the composition, her hand extended over a table, which resembles the table on the ivory, and faces Christ, who is accompanied by a single disciple.6 With the exception of the globe, both representations are noticeably alike and accurately illustrate the Gospel account.7 It is also interesting to note that about the middle of the fifth century Perpetuus recorded that among other Biblical scenes the Widow's Mite was figured on the walls of the church of St. Martin at Tours.8 Whatever the correct interpretation of the scene may be, we have 3 Examples of this scene occur at S. Apollinare Nuovo (Fleury, L'Evangilc, pi. LVIII/2), and in the Homilies of Gregory of Narianzus, gr. 510, Bibl. Nat., Paris (Fleury, op. cit., pi. LVIII/3). 4 Bertaux, L'art dans I'ltalie meridionale, fig. 99. 5 This interpretation is that of Westwood (Fictile Ivories, p. 41), Stuhlfauth, Elfenbeinplastik, and Dobbert, Jb. Preuss. Kunsts., 1894, p. 136. 9 Garr., op. cit., IV, pi. 248/5. 7 Mark xii, 42; Luke xxi, 1-4. 8 Kraus, Ceschichte der christlichen Kunst, I, p. 602 sq; Perpetuus, "Tituli der Basilica des Heil. Martin zu Tours" in Von Schlosser, Quellenbuch cur Kunstgeschichte (Neue Folge, 4), p. 32. Fig. 135. Ravenna: S. Apollinare Nuovo, Mosaic. The Widow's Mite. already indicated the Italian character of the globe as a seat for Christ.9 Although the only other examples of its use in miracle scenes in the eleventh century are the frescoes...

Author: Earl Baldwin Smith
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Robin Jensen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004188983
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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An interdisciplinary study of the practice and purpose of early Christian baptism as it is depicted in pictorial art and as it was practiced in-built structures, this book integrates physical remains with literary evidence for the early Christian initiation rite.

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 988

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Author: Frank Jewett Mather
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861306
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Carved for a Roman city prefect who was a newly baptized Christian at his death, the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is not only a magnificent example of "the fine style" of mid-fourth-century sculpture but also a treasury of early Christian iconography clearly indicating the Christianization of Rome--and the Romanization of Christianity. Whereas most previous scholarship has focused on the style of the sarcophagus, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon explores the perplexing elements of its iconography in their fourth-century context. In so doing she reveals the distinction between "pagan" and Christian images to be less rigid than sometimes thought. Against the background of earlier and contemporary art and religious literature, Malbon explicates the relationship of the facade's two levels of scenes depicting stories from the Old and New Testaments, the connection between the scenes on the facade with those on the lid and ends of the sarcophagus, and the integration of pagan elements within a Christian work. What emerges is a carefully constructed iconographic program shedding light on the development of early Christian art within late antique culture. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Edward Kennard Rand
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Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Includes section "Reviews".