An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian art Christian Iconography examines how the earliest Christian images were created and sheds light on the role they played alongside other forms of Christian piety in their day. Andr??? Grabar looks at the most characteristic examples of paleo-Christian iconography, dwelling on their nature, form, and content. He explores the limits of originality in such art, its debt to figurative art, and the cultural ...
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An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian art Christian Iconography examines how the earliest Christian images were created and sheds light on the role they played alongside other forms of Christian piety in their day. Andr??? Grabar looks at the most characteristic examples of paleo-Christian iconography, dwelling on their nature, form, and content. He explores the limits of originality in such art, its debt to figurative art, and the cultural climate in the Roman Empire more broadly, drawing a distinction between expressive images--that is, genuine works of art--and informative ones. Enriching our understanding of early Christian art, this classic book shows how early Christian iconography assimilated contemporary imagery. It establishes the importance of imperial iconography in the development of Christian portraits and discusses dogmas expressed in single and juxtaposed images.
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Good. 1980 printing. Clean except for a few light fingerprints on the outside edges of the page block; soft cover is moderately faded over spine and around edges, briefly creased at right front and top left front corners, shallowly chipped at the spine head, and shelf-rubbed around the edges, with one very small scratch at the upper front, otherwise excellent. l, 174pp. + 341 b/w plates.
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Good G. Price($15) intact jacket. First Edition. 1st ed. NAP. Bollingen series XXXV. Gray cloth with gilt titles. Ex-lib with usual marking. Otherwise clean and titght. DJ has chips, closed tears stamps. 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
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Good. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. l, 174pp + 341 black-and-white plates. Very good dark red hardcover cloth. Extremely sparse, tiny pencil markings are occasionally found. Glue marks found on the rear paste-down endpaper. Otherwise very good. Extra international postage required.
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Profusely illustrated. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket. Small 4to, 174 pp. +plates, The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1961; Bollingen Series., Some water tide marks affecting the top edges of the first few pages and the inside of the dust jacket.
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Very good in very good(-) jacket. 341 black and white illustrations, 174 pages of text. Thick 4to, gray cloth, torn and chipped d.w. Princeton: Princeton UP, (1968). Some light penciling in the margins, still a very good sturdy copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Bollingen Series XXXV. The 10th vol. of the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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VG, very mild wear to extremities. Owners stamp on ffep. Black wraps with b+w illus and blue/orange lettering. 174 pp + 341 bw plates. Bollingen Series XXXV. I0 The A.W. Mullen Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1961.
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G (DJ has moderate wear and scuffs and has foxing in interrior; former owner name and date on first page; otherwise clean inside. ) Gray cloth, gilt letters on spine, white & black & illus. dust jacket, 174 text pp + 341 bw plates on pp. at rear. Through a series of lectures, Grabar "seeks to show how paleo-Christian images were created and what role they played alongside other forms of Christian piety in their day....He cites the most characteristic examples, dwelling on their nature, form, and content." (dj).
