Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze - Routledge Research in Art and Religion - Andrew Paterson - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9780367697563 - June 30, 2022
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Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze - Routledge Research in Art and Religion


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This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which resemble 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.


256 pages, 10 Halftones, color; 61 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, color; 61 Illustrat

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 30, 2022
ISBN13 9780367697563
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 212
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   580 g

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