Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze

by Andrew Paterson

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, Graeco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel paintings depicting non-Christian deities.

Andrew Paterson addresses two fundamental questions about devotional portraiture - both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367697580
• ISBN13: 9780367697587
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages