The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons stocking stuffers Series: Getty Museum Studies on

Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art

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Shorter texts highlight new acquisitions and discoveries in the collections and focus on the diverse tools for scholarship being developed at the Research Institute

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The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons stocking stuffers Series: Getty Museum Studies onThomas F. Mathews With Norman E. Muller Staking 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