LEADER 03831nam 22006494a 450 001 9910784186103321 005 20230617042545.0 010 $a1-280-86789-2 010 $a9786610867899 010 $a1-4294-5293-5 010 $a90-474-0731-8 010 $a1-4337-0558-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000334860 035 $a(EBL)280852 035 $a(OCoLC)191932782 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261299 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208934 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261299 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10255354 035 $a(PQKB)11680042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC280852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL280852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10171693 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL86789 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000334860 100 $a20041210d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransfigurations of Hellenism$b[electronic resource] $easpects of late antique art in Egypt, A.D. 250-700 /$fby La?szlo? To?ro?k 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (536 p.) 225 1 $aProbleme der A?gyptologie,$x0169-9601 ;$v23 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-14332-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aList 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 327 $a3. 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 Amu?n 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 past 327 $aVII. 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 monuments 327 $aMuseum indexIllustrations 330 $aThis richly illustrated book presents a history of Egyptian late antique-early Byzantine (Coptic) art in its international stylistic, social and intellectual context. 410 0$aProbleme der A?gyptologie ;$v23. Bd. 606 $aCoptic art 606 $aArt, Hellenistic$zEgypt 615 0$aCoptic art. 615 0$aArt, Hellenistic 676 $a709/.32/09015 700 $aTo?ro?k$b La?szlo?$f1941-2020,$01074124 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784186103321 996 $aTransfigurations of Hellenism$93754090 997 $aUNINA