Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome

by Galit Noga-Banai

Sacred Stimulus offers a thorough exploration of Jerusalem's role in the formation and formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. The visual vocabulary discussed by Galit Noga-Banai gives an alternative access point to the mnemonic efforts conceived while Rome converted to Christianity: not in comparison to pagan art in Rome, not as reflecting the struggle with the emergence of New Rome in the East (Constantinople),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190874651
• ISBN13: 9780190874650
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"