03831nam 22006494a 450 991078418610332120230617042545.01-280-86789-297866108678991-4294-5293-590-474-0731-81-4337-0558-3(CKB)1000000000334860(EBL)280852(OCoLC)191932782(SSID)ssj0000261299(PQKBManifestationID)11208934(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261299(PQKBWorkID)10255354(PQKB)11680042(MiAaPQ)EBC280852(Au-PeEL)EBL280852(CaPaEBR)ebr10171693(CaONFJC)MIL86789(EXLCZ)99100000000033486020041210d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransfigurations of Hellenism[electronic resource] aspects of late antique art in Egypt, A.D. 250-700 /by László TörökLeiden ;Boston Brill20051 online resource (536 p.)Probleme der Ägyptologie,0169-9601 ;23Description based upon print version of record.90-04-14332-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 production3. 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 Magna; 4. Uses of the pastVII. Images for mortuary display1. Sculptors, workshops and modes of representation; VIII. Images of the good life: display and style; 1. Iconography of wealth; 2. Styles of wealth; 3. Ornaments for the patrician house and the church; 4. Images and ideals. Creating an Egyptian style; 5. Decline or transformation? Art for the less wealthy; IX. The Christianization of art in late antique Egypt; 1. Classical tradition: from pagan to Christian; 2. Ecclesiastical display and delight in the good things; Epilogue: Perennial Hellenism?; Abbreviations; Index of names; Index of places and monumentsMuseum indexIllustrationsThis richly illustrated book presents a history of Egyptian late antique-early Byzantine (Coptic) art in its international stylistic, social and intellectual context.Probleme der Ägyptologie ;23. Bd.Coptic artArt, HellenisticEgyptCoptic art.Art, Hellenistic709/.32/09015Török László1941-2020,1074124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784186103321Transfigurations of Hellenism3754090UNINA