From Sarapis to Christ to the Caliph : Faces as
Re-Appropriation of the Past

C 2021

From Sarapis to Christ to the Caliph : Faces as Re-Appropriation of the Past

FOLETTI, Ivan and Katharina MEINECKE

Basic information

Original name

From Sarapis to Christ to the Caliph : Faces as Re-Appropriation of the Past

Authors

FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Katharina MEINECKE (276 Germany)

Edition

London, Imagining the Divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia, p. 111-132, 22 pp. British Museum Press, 2021

Publisher

British Museum Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121142

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-0-86159-234-0

Keywords in English

Sarapis; Christ; Caliph; Umayyad coins; Santa Pudenziana; Faces; Traditio Legis; Palmira

Abstract

V originále

What makes a face? What makes a body? In this essay we will reflect, in a two-person dialogue, on the shift in forms and concepts from the pagan visual world to that of the early Christians and the Umayyad caliphate. Our aim is to investigate how authority was created through the appropriation of images from the past. We do not wish to present a complete panorama – that would be impossible in these few pages – but rather concentrate on certain types. We will begin with the face of a man (and god) with a long beard and long hair, present across the three religious cultures considered. Then we will complete the argument with the introduction of the whole body, with particular attention to the standing figure. Finally, we will examine the reclining banqueter as a motif appropriated from the distant past.

Citovat

FOLETTI, Ivan and Katharina MEINECKE. From Sarapis to Christ to the Caliph : Faces as Re-Appropriation of the Past. In Elsner, Jas'; Wood, Rachel. Imagining the Divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia. London: British Museum Press, 2021, p. 111-132. British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-86159-234-0.

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FOLETTI, Ivan and Katharina MEINECKE. From Sarapis to Christ to the Caliph : Faces as Re-Appropriation of the Past. In Elsner, Jas'; Wood, Rachel. \textit{Imagining the Divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia}. London: British Museum Press, 2021, p.~111-132. British Museum Press. ISBN~978-0-86159-234-0.

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