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Autore |
Török László <1941-2020, > |
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Titolo |
Transfigurations of Hellenism [[electronic resource] ] : aspects of late antique art in Egypt, A.D. 250-700 / / by László Török |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005 |
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1-280-86789-2 |
9786610867899 |
1-4294-5293-5 |
90-474-0731-8 |
1-4337-0558-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (536 p.) |
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Collana |
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Probleme der Ägyptologie, , 0169-9601 ; ; 23 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Coptic art |
Art, Hellenistic - Egypt |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of figures; List of plates; Acknowledgements; A note on the terminology; I. Introduction: A visit to the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo; II. Images of late antique Egypt in twentieth-century art history; 1. The Ahnas pitfall; 2. The myth of anti-Hellenism; 3. Pharaonic revival: myth and reality; 4. The myth of Volkskunst and the contribution of forgery to Coptic art history; 5. From Ernst Kitzinger's ""Notes on Early Coptic Sculpture"" to Hjalmar Torp's ""Leda Christiana""; III. On methods; 1. Function, chronology, and style; 2. Chronology and the stratification of artistic production |
3. The limits of the investigationIV. History, society, and art in late Roman and early Byzantine Egypt; 1. Images of social identity; 2. History and society in late antique and early Byzantine Egypt; V. Continuity and change 1: The survival of forms of Alexandrian Hellenistic architecture; VI. Continuity and change 2: New patterns of monumentality; 1. The imperial cult sanctuary of the Tetrarchs in the Amûn temple of Luxor; 2. Modernity and archaizing in Shenoute's ""White Monastery"" at Sohag; 3. The episcopal complex at Hermopolis |
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