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Index
Oxford History of Art
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Roman Language of Art
Coins
Religious art
Chapter 2 - Earliest Christian Art
Christian signs and symbols
Story-telling
Art in the Christian sanctuary
Religious art of non-Christian cults in late antiquity
Chapter 3 - Conversion
Majesty
Christian and non-Christian
Chapter 4 - Art for Aristocrats
Silver
Ivory carvings
Roman and barbarian metalwork
Chapter 5 - Endings and Beginnings
The ‘barbarians’
The Ostrogoths and Ravenna
The expansion of Christian narrative art
Luxury painting in manuscripts
Chapter 6 - Craftsmanship and Artistry
San Vitale at Ravenna
Style II metalwork
The Sutton Hoo ship-burial
Chapter 7 - Saints and Holy Places
Holy tombs
Monasteries
Chapter 8 - Holy Images
Holy of Holies
Iconoclasm and the struggle over tradition
Chapter 9 - Word and Image
The image of the word
Authority and inspiration
Devotion
Chapter 10 - Art at Court
Luxury arts of the court
Appropriation and politics
Chapter 11 - Expressive and Didactic Images
Images and commentaries
Images as commentaries
Expressive imagery
Chapter 12 - Towards a New Age
The external frontier
The internal frontier
Relics and reliquaries
Appropriating antiquity
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
List of Illustrations
Index
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