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The editors are all affiliated with the Department of Classical Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and were responsible for the collaborative research project “Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity” (2007-2010).
Table of Contents
2. Chi parla a chi? Epigrafia monumentale e immagine pubblica in epoca tardoantica (Paolo Liverani)
3. Using Images for Self-Representation on Roman Sarcophagi (Stine Birk)
4. Maxentius, Constantine, and Hadrian: Images and the Expropriation of Imperial Identity (Eric Varner)
5. Late Antique Honorific Sculpture in Constantinople (Sarah Bassett)
6. Collections, Canon, and Context: The Afterlife of Greek Masterpieces in Late Antiquity (Lea Stirling)
7. Late Antique Sculpture in Augusta Emerita and its Territory (Hispania): Officinae, patterns, and circuits (Trinidad Nogales Basarrate)
8. Temples and Civic Representation in the Theodosian Period (Ine Jacobs)
9. Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna and Rome (Simon Malmberg)
10. Urban Armatures, Urban Vignettes: The Interpermeation of the Reality and Ideal of the Late Antique Metropolis (Hendrik Dey)
11. City Personifications in Late Antiquity (Birte Poulsen)
12. Mythology and Theatre in the Mosaics of the Graeco-Roman East (Katherine Dunbabin)
13. Alla ricerca di un’identità. Tradizioni classiche nella prima iconografia Cristiana (Arnaldo Marcone)
14. Using and Abusing Images in Late Antiquity (and Beyond): Column Monuments as Topoi of Idolatry (Troels Myrup Kristensen)
15. The Encyclopaedic Illustration of a New Empire: Graeco-Roman-Byzantine and Sasanian Models on the Façade of Qasr al-Mshatta (Katharina Meinecke)
List of contributors
Index
Reviews & Quotes
"Accordingly, this is a useful and often stimulating book, with an ambitious geographicaland chronological scope, but one well supported by case studies on the visual culture of Late Antiquity."
Medieval Archaeology
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