Abstract

Part I. Ways of Viewing in the Roman World 1. Viewing and the real: the Imagines of Philostratus and the Tabula of Cebes 2. Viewing and society: images, the view, and the Roman house 3. Viewing and the sacred: Pagan, Christian, and the vision of God 4. Viewing and identity: the travels of Pausanias or a Greek pilgrim in the Roman World Part II. The Transformation of Art from Augustus to Justinian 5. Reflections on a Roman revolution: a transformation in the image and conception of the Emperor 6. From the literal to the symbolic: a transformation in the nature of Roman religion and Roman religious art: Part III. Epilogue: Modulations of Change: 7. The truth within these empty figures: the genesis of Christian visual exegesis.

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