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Author: Jaś Elsner 

The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas’ Elsner’s ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations.

The Art of the Roman Empire 100 450 AD Oxford History of Art 2nd table of contents:

Part I. Images And Power
A Visual Culture
Art in State Ceremonial
Art in Civic Life
Art Inside the Roman House
Change and Continuity
Art and Imperial Power
The Animate Image and the Symbolic Unity of the Empire
Imperial Self-Promotion
Continuity and Change
Part II. Images And Society
Art and Imperial Power
Representing Status
The Elite
The Accoutrements of Domestic Life: Rituals of Dining
Paideia in the Household
Centre and Periphery
Local Identity and Empire-Wide Acculturation: The Problems of ‘Romanization’
Late Antiquity: The Periphery’s Ascendancy at the Expense of the Centre
The Visual Dynamics of Romanization
From Romanization to Christianization
Art and Death
Elevating the Dead: Identity, Narrative, and Representation
Myth and the Adaptation of Culture in the Sculptors’ Workshops
Imperial Death: From Pagan to Christian Times
Part III. Images And Transformation
Art and the Past: Antiquarian Eclecticism
Classicism in the Second Sophistic
Classicism in the Late Empire
Art and Religion
An Epoch of Transformation
Image and Ritual in Traditional Religion
Mystery Cults and New Religions: Art and the Construction of Identity
Differentiation and Syncretism: Cultic Creations of Meaning
Christian Triumph: A New Religion as State Cult
An Official Religion and its Public Presence
Sanctity, Relics, and Christianization
The Eurasian Context
An Interconnected World
Appropriations of Images
An Interconnected Discourse of Visual Culture
No Empire is an Island
Part IV. Epilogue
Art and Culture: Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art
The Earnings of Artists: Diocletian’s Price Edict of AD 301
The Value of Art
Ideal and Actual
The Transformation of Culture and the Discourse of Art
Afterword: Some Futures of Christian Art
From Scripture to Symbolism
From Idol to Icon
Notes
List of Illustrations
Bibliographic Essay
Timeline

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