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- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Imperial Context
- 2 The Gandharan Problem
- 3 Writing the Art, Archaeology and Religion of the Roman Mediterranean
- 4 Mystery Cult and Material Culture in the Graeco-Roman World
- 5 The Viennese Invention of Late Antiquity: Between Politics and Religion in the Forms of Late Roman Art
- 6 The Rise of Byzantine Art and Archaeology in Late Imperial Russia
- 7 Ferdinand Piper’s Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher’s Legacy: The Attempted Foundation of a Protestant Theology of Art
- Part II After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- Part III Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
6 - The Rise of Byzantine Art and Archaeology in Late Imperial Russia
from Part I - The Imperial Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 February 2020
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Imperial Context
- 2 The Gandharan Problem
- 3 Writing the Art, Archaeology and Religion of the Roman Mediterranean
- 4 Mystery Cult and Material Culture in the Graeco-Roman World
- 5 The Viennese Invention of Late Antiquity: Between Politics and Religion in the Forms of Late Roman Art
- 6 The Rise of Byzantine Art and Archaeology in Late Imperial Russia
- 7 Ferdinand Piper’s Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher’s Legacy: The Attempted Foundation of a Protestant Theology of Art
- Part II After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- Part III Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Late antiquity could have retained its negative reputation as the ‘dark ages’, a period of crisis that led up to the fall of Rome,1 had it not been for the rich variety of late-antique artworks in European collections.2 Some of these objects, despite what were thought of as coarse forms and a lack of evident aesthetic appeal, nevertheless produced powerful effects on later viewers. A sequence of great discoveries related to late antiquity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and deeper investigations into what was already known, contributed to a field initially built up primarily around available museum objects and fragmentary examples of visual culture.
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- Empires of Faith in Late AntiquityHistories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland, pp. 128 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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