Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

7/1/1989 - 5/31/1992

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$86,665.00 (approved)
$86,665.00 (awarded)


The Birth of Christian Art

FAIN: RO-21906-89

New York University (New York, NY 10012-1019)
Thomas F. Mathews (Project Director: October 1988 to January 1993)

To support a new synthetic analysis of the transition from pagan to Christian iconography during the 3rd to 7th centuries that will draw on patristic and liturgical textual evidence as well as pagan religious art.