The Invisible God - The Earliest Christians on Art - Paperback - 1997

In this text, the author refutes the traditional assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus produced no art. He asserts that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they produced art to decorate them.
Year of publication: 1997
Pagination: 352 pages, numerous halftones and line figures
Format: Paperback