The dawn of Christian art in panel paintings and icons / Thomas F. Mathews with Norman E. Muller.

• 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.

• "In a study of sixty neglected panel paintings from Roman Egypt, the authors present evidence for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Renässansen  (sao)

Kristen konst och symbolik  (sao)

Målarkonst  -- historia (sao)

Panel painting, Medieval.  (LCSH)

Panel painting, Renaissance.  (LCSH)

Panel painting, Greco-Roman  -- Egypt -- Influence. (LCSH)

Icon painting  -- Egypt. (LCSH)

Christian art and symbolism  -- To 500. (LCSH)

Christian art and symbolism  -- Medieval, 500-1500. (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Renaissance  (LCSH)

Christian art and symbolism  (LCSH)

Egypt  -- Antiquities, Roman. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

ND1432.E85 (LCC)

759.932 (DDC)

Ie (kssb/8 (machine generated))