Sarah Bassett: Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art. Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking (reviewed by Jaś Elsner)

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Document type
Review (monograph)
Journal
Plekos. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike
Pages
477-482
Author (Review)
Language(s) (review)
English
Language(s) (reviewed text)
English
Authors
Title
Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
Subtitle
Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking
Year of publication
2024
Place of publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
XIV, 243
ISBN
978-1-00-946632-5
Subject classification
Classical Archaeology
Time classification
1st - 5th century AD, 6th - 12th century
Regional classification
Roman Empire
Subject heading
Geschichte 284-610
Spätantike
Kunst
Ikonografie
Kunststil
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
Rezeption
Stilkritik
Original source URL
https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2025/r-bassett.pdf
recensio-Date
Apr 09, 2026
recensio-ID
8f0b8cc41b2a4fc7afbb98f0d3e9c871

Elsner, Jaś: review of: Sarah Bassett, Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art. Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, in: Plekos. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike, 27 (2025), p. 477-482

URL
https://www.propylaeum.de/recensio-antiquitatis/rezensionen/zeitschriften/plekos/27-2025/style-and-meaning-in-late-antique-art-1
First published
https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2025/r-bassett.pdf

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