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9780415204552

Understanding Early Christian Art

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415204552

  • ISBN10:

    0415204550

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-04-27
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Understanding Early Christian Artoffers an insightful, erudite and lavishly illustrated analysis of the meaning and message of early Christianity as revealed in the texts and images of its first practitioners. Robin Margaret Jensen examines the motifs and subjects of early Christian art, integrating them with the symbols and themes of Christian literature and liturgy. Beginning with an analysis of the non-narrative subjects of the early art--the Good Shepherd, the praying figure, fish and birds--Jensen goes on to explore the narrative images found in Roman catacomb painting, sarcophagus relief sculpture, early mosaics, ivories, and manuscript illumination. Finally, the book examines iconographic themes such as Jonah, Daniel, Abraham offering Isaac, and Adam and Eve.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
viii
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1(7)
The character of early Christian iconography: issues and problems of interpretation
8(24)
Non-narrative images: Christian use of classical symbols and popular motifs
32(32)
Pictorial typologies and visual exegesis
64(30)
Portraits of the incarnate God
94(36)
Images of the suffering redeemer
130(26)
Born again: the resurrection of the body and the restoration of Eden
156(27)
Notes 183(31)
Select bibliography 214(2)
Index 216

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