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The dawn of christian art in panel paintings and icons

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Abstract

Introduction. The survival of ancient panel paintings -- Sites of discovery, places of cult -- Panel paintings in the primary sources -- Restructuring and Hellenizing the Egyptian pantheon -- Icon stories and visions -- The iconography of Mary -- The cult of Templon icons in Constantinople -- Egyptian icon cult and the decree of the Council of Nicaea II -- Christian art, east and west -- Appendix: Pigment identification and media analysis

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Publisher

  • Publication

    Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, [2016]

Is about

  • Subject

    • Medieval, 500-1500
    • Icon painting
    • Egypt
    • Christian art and symbolism
    • Panel painting, Renaissance
    • Panel painting, Medieval
    • Panel painting, Greco-Roman
    • Influence
    • To 500
    • Antiquities, Roman

  • Period

    000-1300

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  • ISBN

    • 1606065092
    • 9781606065099

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  • Notes

    Includes bibliographical references and index

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