Papers presented to the conference, Rome, 1999. Includes bibliographical references. Errata sheet tipped in. In English and French.
Contents:
The Imperial connotations in Roman church interiors : the significance and effect of the Lateran Fastigium / Sible de Blaauw -- Urban space and ritual : Constantinople in late antiquity / Franz Alto Bauer ; Christian emperors and the legacy of imperial art / Hans-Rudolf Meier ; The oratory of the forty martyrs : from imperial ante-vestibule to Christian room of worship / Kirsti Gulowsen ; The ruler image of the fourth century : innovation or tradition / Niels Hannestad ; Constantine, the Lateran, and early church building policy / Olof Brandt ; The church basilica / Dale Kinney ; Imperial connotations in Roman church interiors : the significance and effect of the Lateran Fastigium / Sible de Blaauw -- The absent ruler : reflections on the origin of the Byzantine domed church and its pictorial decoration / Per Jonas Nordhagen. The emperor and the icon / Thomas F. Matthews ; The anatomy of late Roman art : interaction between public and private, meaning and image, patron and workshop / Laszlo Berczelly ; Eastern or western, that is the question : some notes on the new evidence concerning the eastern origin of the Halberstadt Diptych / Gudrun Bühl -- Iconography. Cristo e l'imperatore romano : i valori simbolici del nimbo / Agneta Ahlqvist ; Adventus travels north : a note on the iconography of some Scandinavian gold bracteates / Gunilla Akerström-Hougen ; Ducks, dolphins, and portrait medallions : framing the Achilles mosaic at Pedrosa de la Vega (Palencia) / Bente Kiilerich ; A terracotta plaque in the Dumbarton Oaks collection : judgment scene or congiarium? / Siri Sande ; The iconography of the sarcophagus in S. Ambrogio : hope for salvation through the world of Christ / Olaf Steen ; Un décor de voûte controversé : l'ornemenatation "sassanide" d'une mosaïque de la Rotonde de Saint-Georges à Thessalonique / Hjalmar Torp ; The absent ruler : reflections on the origin of the Byzantine domed church and its pictorial decoration / Per Jonas Nordhagen.
Series:
Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia / Institutum Romanum Norvegiae, 1120-4672 ; 15=new ser., 1
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