ART 590 A World Filled with Gods: Pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art in Late Antiquity
Between the first and the eighth centuries, two new religions, Christianity and Islam, joined the Jewish and Greco-Roman religions. In this course, we will investigate the war of images during this critical period of intercultural transformation and change in the Mediterranean world. We will examine how old and new religions both competed and communicated via art and architecture. Through a number of case studies, we will investigate forms of visual expression in late antiquity; and we will consider how images of the divine functioned to shape and reinforce cultural and social structures.
Cross Listed Courses
ART 390, ART 590, CLAS 390, CLAS 590, HIST 303A