{"product_id":"the-dawn-of-christian-art-in-panel-paintings-and-icons","title":"The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas F. Mathews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith Norman E. Muller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStaking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExciting discoveries punctuate the narrative: the technology of the triptych, enormously popular in Europe, traced by the authors to the construction of Egyptian portable shrines, such as the \u003cem\u003eIsis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSerapis\u003c\/em\u003e of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the discovery that the egg tempera painting medium, usually credited to Renaissance artist Cimabue, has been identified in Egyptian panels a millennium earlier; and the reconstruction of a ring of icons on the chancel of Saint Sophia in Istanbul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will be a vital addition to the fields of Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, and late-antique art history and, more generally, to the history of painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas F. Mathews is the John Langeloth Loeb Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Norman E. Muller is conservator at Princeton University Art Museum and a specialist in painters’ materials and methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“By applying scientific methods, collaboration with others, or advancing iconoclastic ideas, Mathews’s models risk-taking that is at once bracing and illuminating.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eStudies in Iconography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Thomas Mathews and Norman Muller offer a radical alternative picture, based on years of research.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Essential.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eApollo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cscript src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_setLanguage('en');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781606065099');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e256 pages \u003cbr\u003e9 1\/2 x 12 1\/4 inches\u003cbr\u003e100 color and 5 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-60606-509-9\u003cbr\u003ehardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. Paul Getty Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67765981053060,"sku":"mzm1792576832178","price":32.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4879\/7316\/files\/the-dawn-of-christian-art-in-panel-paintings-and-icons_1.jpg?v=1792576836","url":"https:\/\/www.gelnorix.com\/products\/the-dawn-of-christian-art-in-panel-paintings-and-icons","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}