ICS BiblioSelect: Art

Adrych, Philippa, Rachel Wood, and Robert Bracey.  Images of Mithra (Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology, 1).  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Anderson, Benjamin. Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017.

Beckwith, John. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

Birk, Stine, Troels Myrup Kristensen, and Birte Poulsen, eds. Using Images in Late Antiquity. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2014.

Borg, Barbara E., ed.  A Companion to Roman Art. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Bowes, Kimberley. "Christian images in the home." Antiquité Tardive 19 (2011): 171-190.

Brandt, Rasmus H. and Olaf Steen eds. Imperial Art as Christian Art – Christian Art as Imperial Art: Expression and Meaning in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Justinian. Roma: Bari Editore, 2001.

Carruthers, Mary.  The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Coleman, Kathleen M., ed.  Images for Classicists. Loeb classical monographs, 15. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Department of the Classics, 2015.  

Cumont, Franz. Recherches sur le symbolisme funéraire des Romains. Bibliotheca Cumontiana - Scripta Maiora (BICUMA), 4, eds. Janine Balty, Jean-Charles Balty. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015.

Cuscito, Giuseppe & Tomas Lehmann. La Basilica di Aquileia: storia, archeologia ed arte. Trieste: Editreg, 2010.

D'Ambra, Eve, ed. Roman Art in Context: An Anthology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993.

Draycott C.M., and M. Stamatopoulou, eds. Dining and Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the 'Funerary Banquet' in Ancient Art, Burial and Belief. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2016.

Dresken-Weiland, Jutta. Bild, Grab und Wort: Untersuchungen zu Jenseitsvorstellungen von Christen des 3. und 4. Jahrhunderts. Regensburg, Germany: Schnell & Steiner, 2010.

Elsner, Jas R. Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Elsner, Jas R. Imperial Rome & Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Elsner, Jaś. “Archaeologies and Agendas: Reflections on Late Ancient Jewish Art and Early Christian Art.” JRS 93 (2003): 114-128.

Elsner, Jaś. “Inventing Christian Rome. The Role of Early Christian Art.” In C. Edwards and G. Woolf, eds., Rome the Cosmopolis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 71-99.

Elsner, Jas R. Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Elsner, Jaś R. The art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 (second edition). Oxford history of art. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Elsner, Jaś and Michel Meyer, eds.  Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Engemann, Josef.  Römische Kunst in Spätantike und frühem Christentum bis Justinian. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2014.

Fine, Steven.  Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: Toward a new Jewish archaeology. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.

Finney, Paul Corby, ed. Art, Archaeology and Architecture of Early Christianity. New York: Garland, 1993.

Finney, Paul Corby. The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Fleisher, Jens, John Lund, and Marjatta Nielsen eds.  Late Antiquity: Art in Context: 159-168. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001.

Foletti, Ivan and Manuela Gianandrea, eds. The Fifth Century in Rome. Art, Liturgy, Patronage (Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia, 4). Rome: Viella, 2017.

Friedland, Elise A. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Garipzanov, Ildar H., Caroline Goodson, and Henry Maguire, eds. Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Cursor Mundi (CURSOR 27). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017.

Greatrex, Geoffrey and Hugh Elton, ed. Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.

Hachlili, Rachel. Ancient Synagogues - Archaeology and Art: New Discoveries and Current Research. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013.

Huskinson, J. M. Concordia Apostolorum: Christian Propaganda at Rome in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: A Study in Early Christian Iconography and Iconology. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1982.

Janes, Dominic. God and Gold in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Jefferson, Lee M. and Robin M. Jensen, eds. Art of Empire: Christian Art in its Imperial Context. Baltimore: Project Muse, 2015; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

Jensen, Robin M. Understanding Early Christian Art. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

Jensen, Robin M. The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2004.

Jensen, Robin M. Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.

Jensen, Robin. Living Water: The Art and Architecture of Ancient Christian Baptism. Leiden-Boston: Brill Publishers, 2011.

Jensen, Robin. Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity. Ada, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2012.

Jensen, Robin. The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Jensen, Robin Margaret and Mark D. Ellison, eds. The Routledge handbook of early Christian art. London; New York: Routledge, 2018.

Kessler Herbert L., and David Nirenberg, eds. Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Koch, Guntram. Early Christian Art and Architecture: An Introduction. London: SCM Press, 1996.

Krautheimer, R., ed., Studies in Early Christian, Medieval and Renaissance Art.  New York: New York University Press, 1969.

Lapatin, Kenneth.  Luxus: The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2015.

Lazaridou, Anastasia, ed. Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity,3rd – 7th Century AD. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2011.

Leader-Newby, R. E. Silver and Society in Late Antiquity. Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2004.

Leibner, Uzi, and Catherine Hezser, eds. Jewish Art in its Late Antique Context. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Levine, Lee I. Visual Judaism: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Levine, Lee I., ‎Zeʼev Weiss, ‎and Daṿid ʻAmit. From Dura to Sepphoris. Studies in Jewish Art and Society in Late Antiquity. JRA suppl. 40. Portsmouth: JRA, 2000.

Lowden, John. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. London: Phaidon, 1998.

MacCormack, Sabine. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981.

Mathews, Thomas F. The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Murray, Sister Charles. Rebirth and Afterlife: A Study of the Transmutation of Some Pagan Imagery in Early Christian Funerary Art. Oxford: British Archaeology Reports, 1981.

Nasrallah, Laura. Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Prigent, Pierre. L’art des premiers chrétiens: L’héritage culturel et la foi nouvelle. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1995.

Provoost, Arnold. De vroegchristelijke funeraire beeldtaal: met chronologisch repertorium van de catacombenschilderingen in Rome en van de vroegchristelijke sarcofagen. 3: Repertorium vanaf ca. 375. Leuven: KUL. Onderzoekseenheid archeologie, 2011.

Spier, Jeffrey, ed. Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art. New Haven/London/ Fort Worth: Yale University Press, 2007.

Tuck, Steven L. A History of Roman Art. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2014.

Urbano, Arthur. "Fashioning Witnesses “Hebrews” and “Jews” in Early Christian Art," in A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nathaniel P. DesRosiers, Shira L. Lander, Jacqueline Z. Pastis & Daniel Ullucci, eds., Brown Judaic Studies, 358, Providence, 2015, 89-100.

Urbano, Arthur.  "Donation, Dedication and Damnatio Memoriae: The Catholic Reconciliation and the Church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna," The Journal of Early Christian Studies, 13:1 (2005), 71-110.

Venit, Marjorie Susan.  Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.  

Vout, Caroline. Classical art: a life history from antiquity to the present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Weitzmann, Kurt, ed. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century, 2d. ed.. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979.

Zanker, Paul. Roman Art. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010.