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Tables of Contents for Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
24
The scope of this book: redefining the present by rewriting the past
1
7
Continuity and change
8
3
The role of the visual in Roman culture
11
4
The changing nature of Roman art and the art-historical problem of style
15
10
PART I IMAGES AND POWER
25
64
A Visual Culture
27
26
Art in state ceremonial
28
7
Art in civic life
35
9
Art inside the Roman house
44
6
Change and continuity
50
3
Art and Imperial Power
53
36
The animate image and the symbolic unity of the empire
54
4
Imperial self-promotion
58
5
Continuity and change
63
26
PART II IMAGES AND SOCIETY
89
78
Art and Social Life
91
24
Representing status
92
10
The accoutrements of domestic life: rituals of dining
102
4
Paideia in the household
106
9
Centre and Periphery
115
30
Local identity and empire-wide acculturation: the problems of `Romanization'
117
9
Late antiquity: the periphery's ascendancy at the expense of the centre
126
8
The visual dynamics of Romanization
134
4
From Romanization to Christianization
138
7
Art and Death
145
22
Elevating the dead: identity, narrative, and representation
147
5
Myth and the adaptation of culture in the sculptors' workshops
152
6
Imperial death: from pagan to Christian times
158
9
PART III IMAGES AND TRANSFORMATION
167
70
Art and the Past: Antiquarian Eclecticism
169
30
Classicism in the Second Sophistic
170
16
Classicism in the late empire
186
13
Art and Religion
199
38
An epoch of transformation
199
4
Image and ritual in traditional religion
203
2
Mystery cults and new religions: art and the construction of identity
205
6
Differentiation and syncretism: cultic creations of meaning
211
10
Christian triumph: a new religion as state cult
221
16
EPILOGUE
237
14
Art and Culture: Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art
239
12
The earnings of artists: Diocletion's price edict of AD 301
239
2
The value of art
241
2
Ideal and actual
243
4
The transformation of culture and the discourse of art
247
4
Afterword Some Futures of Christian Art
251
9
From scripture to symbolism
251
6
From idol to icon
257
3
Notes
260
12
List of Illustrations
272
6
Bibliographic Essay
278
4
Timeline
282
8
Index
290