Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century

by Kurt Weitzmann

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The first centuries of the Christian Era were ones of extraordinary upheaval: the great traditions of the classical world were transformed by dramatic changes in the political and social structure, by continual warfare against invaders, and by the growing influence of then-nascent religion Christianity. The trend of this period has been interpreted by some historians as the decline of civilization, but it is represented by its art as a time of cultural experimentation. Although they abandoned some of the realism of the classical mode, artists of the post-antique world continued to borrow from the repertoire of images of pagan...

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  • ISBN10 0300200420
  • ISBN13 9780300200423
  • Publish Date 3 September 2013
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 784
  • Language English