Late Antiquity: Art in Context

Twelve international papers, from a conference held at the University of Aarhus in 1997, which explore the iconography and styles of Late Antique art and architecture. The papers argue that Late Antiquity existed as a distinct period in its own right and that it exhibited both transformation and continuity. Subjects include mummy portraits, Constantine's reuse of earlier buildings and monuments, coinage, the contrasting motifs of late Roman and Christian lamps, Phocaean Red Slip Ware and 'The Oratory of the Forty Martyrs' in the heart of the Roman Forum. Includes an additional paper on Etruscan funerary art and two book reviews. English, German and Italian papers.