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Book Review
The World of Late Antiquity
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1093
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Reviewer:
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
Subjects
subjects:
Antiquity / Roman art / Byzantine art / Islam / Christianity / Paganism
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subjects:
The World of Late Antiquity By Peter Brown. 240 pp. incl. 129 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames & Hudson, London, 2024), £10.60. ISBN 978–0–500–29748–3. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
7. Solidus of Justinian II. Byzantine, 692–95. Gold, diameter 1.9 cm. (Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis).
Book Review
Carlo Crivelli et le matérialisme mystique du Quattrocento. By Thomas Golsenne
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 698-699
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Reviewer:
Hilliam, Amanda (Hilliam, Amanda)
Subjects
art literature:
Deleuze, Gilles / Kant, Immanuel
artists:
Crivelli, Carlo
dates:
1400-1499
media:
Paintings
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Italian painting / Ornament / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Iconography / Paganism / Perspective / Style / Patronage / Tempera / Trompe l'oeil / Sublime / Monographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Virgin and Child, by Carlo Crivelli. c.1480. Tempera on panel, 48.5 by 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Publication Received
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
10/2008 | 1267 | 50
Pages: 698
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Reviewer:
Scafi, Alessandro (Scafi, Alessandro)
Subjects
dates:
0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399
print:
Medieval art
subjects:
Medieval / Essays
subjects:
Christian iconography / Christianity / Paganism
subjects:
Iconography / Greco-Roman / Roman (post-Classical) / Illuminated manuscripts
subjects:
Jewish / Roman art / Roman (ancient)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art | author: Scafi, Alessandro , author: Spier, Jeffrey
Book Review
Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity
08/1996 | 1121 | 138
Pages: 545-546
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Reviewer:
Brilliant, Richard (Brilliant, Richard)
Subjects
subjects:
Paganism / Early Christian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity | author: Elsner, Jas
Book Review
Pagan Mysteries of the Renaissance
02/1959 | 671 | 101
Pages: 73-74
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Reviewer:
Garin, Eugenio (Garin, Eugenio)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1549
places:
Italy
subjects:
Iconography / Renaissance / Classical mythology / Paganism
subjects:
Neo-Platonism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pagan Mysteries of the Renaissance | author: Wind, Edgar
Short Notice
The Halo: A Further Enquiry into Its Origin
04/1941 | 457 | 78
Pages: 123-127+131
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Author:
Ramsden, E. H. (Ramsden, E. H.)
Subjects
places:
Persia / Iran / Egypt / Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Iconography / Halos
subjects:
Persian / Origins / Visual sources
subjects:
Mithraism
subjects:
Christian iconography / Paganism / Influence
subjects:
Mithras
subjects:
Seleucid / Sassanian / Buddhist
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A-Antiochus I of Commagene and Mithras. Relief. Seleucid. Nimrud-Dagh, Asia Minor. Mid First Century B. C. Shorter Notices: The Halo: A Further Enquiry into Its Origin
Non-western art unattributed:
B-The Royal Investiture of Ardashir II. Rock Carving. Sassanian. Takt-i-Bostan, Persia. Late Fourth Century A. D. Shorter Notices: The Halo: A Further Enquiry into Its Origin
Non-western art unattributed:
C-Coin of Kaniska. Ku. shan. Late First or Early Second Century A. D. Shorter Notices: The Halo: A Further Enquiry into Its Origin
Non-western art unattributed:
Figure 1. Carved Capital. Sassanian. Takt-i-Bostan, Persia (After J. de Morgan's "Mission Scientifique en Perse," Tome IV).
Non-western art unattributed:
Figure 2. Medallion of Constant I, Mid-Fourth Century A. D. (From Froehner's "Les Médailles de L'empire Romain.").
Article
A Bronze Bust of Commodus
08/1908 | 65 | 13
Pages: 252-253+255-257
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Author:
Smith, Cecil Harcourt (Smith, Cecil Harcourt; Smith, Cecil; S., C.; Smith, Cecil H.; Harcourt-Smith, Cecil)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Salting, George
dates:
0100-0199
patrons:
Commodus, Emperor of Rome, 161-192
places:
Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Sculpture / Bronzes / Busts / Roman (ancient) / Royalty / Emperors
subjects:
Iconography / Portraits / Paganism / Mithraism
subjects:
Roman (ancient) sculpture
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
Bronze Bust of the Emperor Commodus and Bronze Base (circa A. D. 186-192) in the Collection of Mr. George Salting. A Bronze Bust of Commodus