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Published 1979
Christian Art in Asia /

: 1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004643277

Published 2011
The dragon in medieval East Christian and Islamic art

: This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004209725 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Coptic art revealed : a milestone exhibition : Palace of Amir Taz, Cairo, December 8, 2010-April 30, 2011 /

: "'Coptic art revealed' was the first locally curated temporary exhibition on Coptic art in Egypt that displayed a large variety of objects shown together exclusively to highlight key topics of the Coptic culture"--Pages [4] of cover. : 83 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color plan ; 30 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Published 2020
The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt /

: In The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt Gillian Spalding-Stracey brings the design of crosses in monastic and ecclesiastical settings to the fore. Visual representations of the Holy Cross are often so ubiquitous in Christian art that they are often overlooked as artistic devices themselves. This volume offers an exploration of the variety of designs and associated imagery by which the Cross was expressed across the Egyptian landscape in late antiquity. A survey of locations and images leads to an analysis of artistic influences, possible symbolism, variance across time and place and the contextual use of the motif. Gillian Spalding-Stracey provides the reader with an art-historical perspective of the socio-cultural situation in Egypt at the time.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004430518
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Published 1921
A guide to the early Christian and Byzantine antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities /

: "Written by Mr. O.M. Dalton." : xii, 191 pages : 105 illustrations, map, 15 plates ; 22 cm.

Published 2013
Pottery, pavements, and paradise : iconographic and textual studies on late antiquity /

: These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity.
: 1 online resource (xxii, 582 pages) : illustrations (some color) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-459) and index. : 9789004256934 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

les Reliquaires du Proche-Orient et de Chypre a ala Periode protobyzantine, IVe-VIIIe siecles : formes, emplacements, fonctions et cultes /

: 510 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-484) and index. : 9782503542126

Published 2010
Identity and Christian-Muslim interaction : medieval art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul area /

: xi, 591 pages : Illustrations (some color), plates ; 25 cm. : 9789042923867 : Nabil

Published 2022
Early Anglo-Saxon Christian reliquaries /

: This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789694093 (PDF ebook) :

Published 1979
Ladders to heaven : our Judeo-Christian heritage 5000 B.C.-A.D. 500 /

: 28 p. : ill. (1 col.), map ; 24 cm. : 0888542453

Published 2011
Egypt 1350 BC - AD 1800 : art historical and archaeological studies for Gawdat Gabra /

: 155 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9783895008207 : wafaa.lib

Published 2010
The apse, the image, and the icon : an historical perspective of the apse as a space for images /

: 131 pages, [74] pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-127) and index. : 9783895007033 (alk. paper)

Published 1994
Byzantine figural processional crosses /

: "Catalogue of an exhibition at Dumbarton Oaks 23 September 1994 through 29 January 1995"--T.p. verso. : 124 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 0884022285

Interactions : artistic interchange between the Eastern and Western worlds in the Medieval period /

: xiv, 300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9780976820246

Published 2013
Images of cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine art : God's blueprint of creation /

: Does the design of the Tabernacle in the wilderness correspond to God's blueprint of Creation? The Christian Topography, a sixth-century Byzantine Christian work, presents such a cosmology. Its theory is based on the "pattern" revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai when he was told to build the Tabernacle and its implements "after their pattern, which is being shown thee on the Mount." (Exod. 25: 40). The book demonstrates, through texts and images, the motifs that link the Tabernacle and Creation. It traces the long chain of transmission that connects the Jewish and Christian traditions from Syria and ancient Israel to France and Spain from the first through the fourteenth century, revealing new models of interaction between Judaism and Christianity.
: 1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004252196 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2005
Pilgrim treasures from the Hermitage : Byzantium, Jerusalem /

: 123 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : 9040091285

Published 2009
Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in history, religion, art and literature /

: This volume contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity. From the Jewish side, particularly in Orthodox circles, there is a position maintaining the independence of Judaism from outside influences including Christianity. Traditional Christian theology, on the other hand, held a supercessionist view in which Judaism was seen merely as a historical preparation for the later revelation of Christianity. Was there no real interaction? When and how did Judaism and Christianity become two distinct religions? When did the 'parting of ways\' take place, if indeed there really was such a parting of ways? The present volume takes a bold step forward by assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as a polemical rejection or as tacit appropriation.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047424826 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2018
Late antique images of the Virgin Annunciate spinning : allotting the scarlet and the purple /

: In Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: allotting the scarlet and the purple , Catherine Gines Taylor traces the way early Christians assimilated the symbolism of spinning into images of the Annunciation. Taylor offers an art historical and interdisciplinary look at the earliest images of Mary spinning, underscoring the iconographic model of idealized matronage consistent with lay piety and the cult of Mary. The personal and domestic nature of this motif is evidence toward popular Mariological devotion that preceded the exclusive, semi-divine presentation of the Theotokos , and stands in contrast with traditional ascetic models for Mary.
: 1 online resource (242 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004362703 : 2213-0039 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2012
Orient et Occident méditerranéens au XIIIe siècle : les programmes picturaux. [Actes du colloque international organisé à l'École française d'Athènes les 2-4 avril 2009] /

: "Actes du colloque international organisé à l'École française d'Athènes les 2-4 avril 2009"--Page facing title page.
Includes disc inserted in pocket. : 264 pages : illustrations, chiefly color ; 27 cm + 1 video disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.). : Includes bibliographical references. : 9782708409224

Published 2013
The Torah ark in Renaissance Poland : a Jewish revival of classical antiquity /

: The volume explores the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century synagogues in the former Polish Kingdom. Created on the margin of mainstream art and at a crossroad of diverse cultures, artistic traditions, aesthetic attitudes and languages, these indoor architectural structures have hitherto not been the subject of a monographic study. Revisiting and integrating multiple sources, the author re-evaluates the relationship of the Jewish culture in Renaissance Poland with the medieval Jewish heritage, sepulchral art of the Polish court and nobles, and earlier adaptations of the Christian revival of classical antiquity by Italian Jews. The book uncovers the evolution of artistic patronage, aesthetics, expressions of identities, and emerging visions among a religious minority on the cusp of the modern age.
: 1 online resource (xxviii, 240 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004244405 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.