Unless otherwise stated, the images are the author’s own. The following images have been reproduced with permission:
Cover image | Saint Thecla with Wild Beasts and Angels, Egyptian, 5th century CE Limestone, 3¾ × 25½ inches (9.5 × 64.8 cm). By kind permissions of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 48–10. Photo: Jamison Miller |
Figure 1.3 | Empress Ariadne, c. AD 500. Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Figure 2.1 | © The Trustees of the British Museum |
Figure 2.2 | © The Trustees of the British Museum |
Figure 2.3 | © The Trustees of the British Museum |
Figure 3.1 | Nave. Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. © 2011. Photo Scala, Florence |
Figure 3.4 | © The Trustees of the British Museum |
Figure 5.1 | © RMN / Les frères Chuzeville |
Figure 6.3 | Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Plut. 9.28, c. 95v. Courtesy of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Italy. Any further reproduction prohibited. |