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Word Becomes Image: Openwork vessels as a reflection of Late Antique transformation
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Hallie G. Meredith
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-31 - Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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Presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by t
Word Becomes Image
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Hallie Meredith
Categories: Art objects, Roman
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

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Presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by t
Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Sean V. Leatherbury
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), co
Destinations in Mind
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Kimberly Cassibry
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In Destinations in Mind, Kimberly Cassibry asks how objects depicting different sites helped Romans understand their vast empire. At a time when many cities wer
The Open Work
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Umberto Eco
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--a