Transfigurations of Hellenism: Aspects of Late Antique Art in Egypt Ad 250-700 (Probleme Der Ägyptologie) - Hardcover

Török, László

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004143327 ISBN 13: 9789004143326

Publisher: Brill, 2005

Synopsis

This book deals with the architecture and visual arts in late antique-early Byzantine Egypt as an organic part of the art of the Mediterranean region in the period between the 3rd and 8th centuries. The richly illustrated book discusses the survival and transformations of Hellenistic themes and forms in the Roman and late antique periods. It also presents a history of Coptic art history.

"Transfigurations of Hellenism is an outstanding addition to this scholarship, tracing out in detail the continuity of the Hellenistic tradition in Egyptian art...All scholars of late antiquity will find much of interest in this fine work."
Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles

About this title

About the Author:

László Török, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992), is Research Professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on ancient Nubian history and Hellenistic and late antique art in Egypt, including The Kingdom of Kush (Leiden, 1997), The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art (Leiden, 2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9004143327
• ISBN 13: 9789004143326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400