Transfigurations of Hellenism : aspects of late antique art in Egypt, AD 250-700 /
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Format: Book
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
Series:
Probleme der Agyptologie,
23.
PdA ;
23.
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Call Number: DT57 .P92 v.23
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction : a visit to the Coptic museum in Old Cairo
- II. Images of late antique Egypt in twentieth-century art history
- III. On methods
- IV. History, society, and art in late Roman and early Byzantine Egypt
- V. Continuity and change 1 : the survival of forms of Alexandrian Hellenistic architecture
- VI. Continuity and change 2 : new patterns of monumentality
- VII. Images for mortuary display
- VIII. Images of the good life : display and style
- IX. The Christianization of art in late antique Egypt
- Epilogue : perennial Hellenism?