Understanding early Christian art / Robin Margaret Jensen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.Description: xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415204542 (hardback)
  • 0415204550 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 246 J453un
LOC classification:
  • N7832 .J46 2000
Contents:
The character of early Christian iconography: issues and problems of interpretation -- Non-narrative images: Christian use of classical symbols and popular motifs -- Pictorial typologies and visual exegesis -- Portraits of the incarnate God -- Images of the suffering redeemer -- Born again: the resurrection of the body and the restoration of Eden.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-215) and index.

The character of early Christian iconography: issues and problems of interpretation -- Non-narrative images: Christian use of classical symbols and popular motifs -- Pictorial typologies and visual exegesis -- Portraits of the incarnate God -- Images of the suffering redeemer -- Born again: the resurrection of the body and the restoration of Eden.

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