Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271060840 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 600 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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She takes the reader through a deep and enlightening historical survey of the excavated materials, offering insight and up-to-date information on a vast and wonderful corpus, and not eschewing controversial topics such as iconoclasm and the destruction of figurative images in the eighth century.”—Ja Elsner, University of Oxford“One of the great merits of this book lies in its integration of the methods of art historical and historical analyses. Technique and style play an important role in her study, along with analysis of iconography. These mosaics evoke the cults and tastes of pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims from before the Roman Empire to after the Muslim conquests. Rina Ta
to the eighth century c.e. Covering almost one thousand years of mosaic production, Mosaics of Faith offers an unprecedented view of the evolution of floor decorations from the Hellenistic to the Roman periods, in the transition from Roman to Early Byzantine art, and in the persistence of Byzantine traditions under Umayyad rule. More than other corpora of ancient mosaics, those from the Holy Land have generated greater awareness of the intricate visual exchanges between paganism, Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam. Her examination of the mosaics in a pivotal area of the eastern Mediterranean sharpens and refine
Rina Talgam is Associate Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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