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Description

1. xv, 212 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Summary

1. "This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of 'sacred portrait' also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Greco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel-paintings depicting non-Christian deities. Andrew Paterson addresses two fundamental questions about devotional portraiture - both Christian and non-Christian - in the late antique period. Firstly, how did artists visualise and construct these images of divine or sanctified figures? And secondly, how did their intended viewers look at, respond to, and even interact with these images? Paterson argues that a key factor of many of these portrait-images is the emphasis given to the depicted gaze, which invites an intensified form of personal encounter with the portrait's subject. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, theology, religion, and classical studies"--

Series statement

1. Routledge research in art and religion

Uniform title

1. Routledge research in art and religion.

Subject

1. Icons
2. Icons > Psychological aspects
3. Painting, Early Christian
4. Portraits, Ancient
5. Portraits > Psychological aspects

Contents

1. The Production of Sacred Portraits (i): Techniques and Stylistic Variation -- The Production of Sacred Portraits (ii): The Visualisation of the Prototype -- The Reception of Sacred Portraits (i): Functions and Meanings of the Depicted Gaze -- The Reception of Sacred Portraits (ii): Their Role in Spiritual Practice.

Call number

1. JQF 22-1688

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-207) and index.

Author

1. Paterson, Andrew (Andrew Lindsay), author.

Title

1. Late antique portraits and early Christian icons : the power of the painted gaze / Andrew Paterson.

Publisher

1. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge research in art and religion
2. Routledge research in art and religion.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-207) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Paterson, Andrew (Andrew Lindsay) Late Antique portraits and Early Christian icons New York : Routledge, 2022 9781003143109 (DLC) 2021060888

LCCN

1. 2021060887

Other standard identifier

1. 40031323837

ISBN

1. 9780367697563 hardcover
2. 0367697564 hardcover
3. 9780367697587 paperback
4. 0367697580 paperback

Research call number

1. JQF 22-1688