Finale Uitverkoop Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. – ELSNER, J.,

‘Like many art historians before him, Elsner sets out in this book to explain the well-known stylistic transformationof art in the Roman Empire from an essentially naturalistic and illusionistic style in the first century to an increasingly abstract and symbolic style in Late Antiquity and the Early Christian period. Because ?meaning depends as much on what the viewer brings to interpretation as it does on the actual object he or she interprets?, the most useful key to explaining this change, he proposes, …