Jaś Elsner

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Jaś Elsner is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of Rochester

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#139

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Jaś Elsner's Degrees

Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
PhD Classical Art and Archaeology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, John Richard "Jaś" Elsner, is a British art historian and classicist, who is Professor of Late Antique Art in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford , Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford , and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago . He is mainly known for his work on Roman art, including Late Antiquity and Byzantine art, as well as the historiography of art history, and is a prolific writer on these and other topics. Elsner has been described as "one of the most well-known figures in the field of ancient art history, respected for his notable erudition, extensive range of interests and expertise, his continuing productivity, and above all, for the originality of his mind", and by Shadi Bartsch, a colleague at Chicago, as "the predominant contemporary scholar of the relationship between classical art and ancient subjectivity".

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Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity (1995) (260)
Iconoclasm as Discourse: From Antiquity to Byzantium (2012) (164)
From the culture of spolia to the cult of relics: the Arch of Constantine and the genesis of late antique forms (2000) (109)
Translators' Introduction (2008) (98)
Art and text in Roman culture (2000) (97)
The language of images in Roman art (2004) (89)
The Birth of Late Antiquity: Riegl and Strzygowski in 1901 (2002) (85)
From Empirical Evidence to the Big Picture: Some Reflections on Riegl’s Concept of Kunstwollen (2006) (76)
Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 (1998) (68)
Introduction: Eight Ways of Looking at an Ekphrasis (2007) (66)
Introduction: The Genres of Ekphrasis (2002) (64)
Pausanias : travel and memory in Roman Greece (2001) (64)
The Poetics of Late Latin Literature (2017) (63)
Archaeologies and Agendas: Reflections on Late Ancient Jewish Art and Early Christian Art* (2003) (61)
Voyages and visions : towards a cultural history of travel (1999) (56)
Reflections of Nero: Culture, History, & Representation (1994) (55)
Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture (2014) (53)
Cultural Resistance and the Visual Image: The Case of Dura Europos (2001) (48)
The Itinerarium Burdigalense: Politics and Salvation in the Geography of Constantine's Empire* (2000) (44)
Art History as Ekphrasis (2010) (43)
Paideia: Ancient Concept and Modern Reception (2013) (42)
Aegyptiaca Romana: Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views of Egypt (2003) (38)
Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 (2017) (37)
Representing the Nation: A Reader (2000) (36)
INTRODUCTION: ‘IF YOU NEED AN ACTUAL STATUE…’ (2006) (36)
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity : seeing the gods (2005) (35)
The Genesis of Iconology (2012) (31)
Grasping the World: The idea of the museum (2005) (30)
Viewing Ariadne: From Ekphrasis to Wall Painting in the Roman World (2007) (29)
The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order (2014) (26)
Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi (2011) (23)
Late Antique Art: The Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic (2006) (21)
The Christian Museum in Southern France: Antiquity, Display, and Liturgy from the Counter-Reformation to the Aftermath of Vatican II (2009) (19)
The Genesis of Struktur: Kaschnitz‐Weinberg's Review of Riegl and the New Viennese School (2016) (19)
The intersection of risk assessment and neurobehavioral toxicity. (1996) (19)
Myth and Chronicle: A Response to the Values of Art (2010) (19)
Decorative imperatives between concealment and display: The form of sarcophagi (2012) (16)
Closure and Penetration: Reflections on the Pola Casket (1970) (16)
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity (2007) (16)
Seeing and Saying: A Psychoanalytic Account of Ekphrasis (2004) (15)
LITHIC POETICS: POSIDIPPUS AND HIS STONES (2014) (15)
Reception and redemption: some questions in response to Charles Martindale’s call for a new humanism (2013) (14)
Roman eyes : visuality & subjectivity in art & text (2007) (14)
A Golden Age of Gothic (2011) (14)
Being Greek under Rome: Describing Self in the language of the Other: Pseudo (?) Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis (2001) (14)
Framing the Objects We Study: Three Boxes from Late Roman Italy (2008) (12)
Questions on “world art history” (2014) (12)
Image and site: Castiglione Olona in the early fifteenth century (2010) (12)
Pilgrimage. A spiritual and cultural journey . By Ian Bradley. Pp. 223 incl. numerous colour plates. Oxford: Lion, 2009. £20. 978 0 7459 5270 3 (2009) (12)
Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity (2009) (10)
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Sacrifice in late Roman art (2012) (10)
Religion and Iconoclasm (2016) (9)
Subterranean Rome. In search of the roots of Christianity in the catacombs of the Eternal City. By L. V. Rutgers. Pp. 164 incl. 50 figs. Leuven: Peeters, 2000. B.Fr. 565 (paper). 90 429 0857 2 (2002) (9)
Saints : faith without borders (2011) (8)
Art and Text (2007) (7)
Frontality in the column of Marcus Aurelius (2000) (7)
Sacrifice and narrative on the Arch of the Argentarii at Rome (2005) (7)
Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in the Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage (2007) (7)
Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism and Framing in the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition (2017) (6)
Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity (1996) (6)
Perspectives in Art (2005) (6)
Visualising women in Late Antique Rome:: the Projecta casket (2016) (5)
A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage (2004) (5)
Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity (2014) (5)
Picturesque and Sublime: Impacts of Pausanias in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010) (5)
Architecture of the Sacred: Material Culture and Ritual: State of the Question (2012) (5)
The Archaeology of Greece and Rome: Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass (2016) (4)
'Homer and the ekphrasists: Text and picture in the Elder Philostratus’ Scamander (Imagines I.1)’, (2016) (4)
Sight and memory: the visual art of Roman mnemonics (2015) (4)
Berenson's decline, or his 'Arch of Constantine' reconsidered (1998) (4)
Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England (2002) (4)
Figurines. Figuration and The Sense of Scale (2022) (4)
Visual Culture and Ancient History (2015) (4)
Introduction: Holy by Special Application (2009) (4)
Mutable, Flexible, Fluid: Papyrus Drawings for Textiles and Replication in Roman Art (2020) (3)
Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight and Awakening (2000) (3)
CLASSICISM IN ROMAN ART (2021) (3)
The Transfigured Mountain: Icons and Transformations of Pilgrimage at the Monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai (2010) (3)
The Embodied Object: Recensions of the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi (2018) (3)
Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (review) (2005) (3)
The Viennese Invention of Late Antiquity: Between Politics and Religion in the Forms of Late Roman Art (2020) (2)
Ancient viewing and modern art history (1998) (2)
Afterword. Framing Knowledge: Collecting Objects, Collecting Texts (2014) (2)
Beauty and the Roman female portrait (2014) (2)
Envisioning Byzantium: materiality and visuality in Procopius of Caesarea (2013) (2)
Double Identity : Orpheus as David. Orpheus as Christ? (2009) (2)
Viewpoint: Exiles and émigrés, libraries and image collections: the intellectual legacy (2013) (2)
The maps of Matthew Paris. Medieval journeys through space, time and liturgy . By Daniel K. Connolly. Pp. xiii+224+10 colour and 48 black-and-white plates. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. £50. 978 1 84383 478 6 (2010) (2)
Imagining the Divine. Art and the Rise of World Religions (2017) (2)
Myth, Meaning and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi (1996) (2)
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity (2020) (2)
Images and Texts on the "Artemidorus Papyrus": Working Papers on P. Artemid (St John's College Oxford, 2008) (2009) (2)
Museums and the Future of Collecting (2001) (1)
The Death of the Figurine: Reflections on an Abrahamic Abstention (2020) (1)
Exhibitions and the Formation of Knowledge (2018) (1)
The "New Museology" and Classical Art (1996) (1)
Greco-Roman travel writing: new perspectives on an ancient game (2009) (1)
J. Rasmus Brandt and O. Steen, Imperial Art as Christian Art – Christian Art as Imperial Art (Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 15). Rome: Bardi Editore, 2001. Pp. 338, 213 illus. ISBN 88-85699-94-4. €65.00. (2003) (1)
11. Image and Rhetoric in Early Christian Sarcophagi: Reflections on Jesus’ Trial (2010) (1)
New Studies on the Artemidorus Papyrus (2012) (1)
Book Review:Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance David Frankfurter (2000) (1)
Chapter 1. ‘‘Pharaoh’s Army Got Drownded’’: Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman Genealogies in Early Christian Art (2012) (1)
Room with a Few: Eduard Fraenkel and the Receptions of Reception (2021) (1)
Pfeiffer, Fraenkel, and Refugee Scholarship in Oxford during and after the Second World War (2017) (1)
Jewish Art: Before and After the Jewish State (1948) (2020) (1)
The Cross: History, Art and Controversy (2019) (1)
Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture: Introduction (2014) (1)
The Artemidorus Papyrus (2019) (1)
Some Observations on Dionysiac Sarcophagi (2018) (1)
Book Review:The Colors of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination Constance Classen (2000) (0)
Poems in Stone (2014) (0)
NO SECRET ABOUT THE MATERIALS INSIDE (1998) (0)
The Christian parthenon. Classicism and pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens . By Anthony Kaldellis. Pp. xvi+252 incl. frontispiece and 36 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £55. 978 0 521 88228 6 (2010) (0)
Other Worlds: Utopias in the Art of Late Ancient Eurasia (2021) (0)
A. Chaniotis Ed. Ritual Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean: Agency, Emotion, Gender, Representation (Habes 49). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, (2011). Pp. 390, illus. €62. 9783515099165. (2014) (0)
Collecting in Contemporary Practice (1998) (0)
A gesture of openness (2003) (0)
Collecting in a Consumer Society (2000) (0)
Green Curtains and Picture Covers: Towards an Archaeology of the Pictorial Closet (2015) (0)
Material religion in comparative perspective : how different is BCE from CE? (2021) (0)
Emily J. Levine.Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 464 pp. (2016) (0)
01.05.09, Ashley and Sheingorn, Writing Faith (2001) (0)
Ancient art the question of lost objects: the case of ivories (2000) (0)
Editorial (2012) (0)
An archaeology of memory: the 'reinvention' of Roman sarcophagi in Provence during the Middle Ages (2013) (0)
Paideia: Ancient Concept and Modern Reception (2013) (0)
A Roman Vessel for Cosmetics: Form, Decoration, and Subjectivity in the Muse Casket (2019) (0)
ART AND RELIGION (2021) (0)
Jas' Elsner. Review of "Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England" by Brian Lukacher. (2007) (0)
Space–Object–Landscape (2021) (0)
The Tetrarchic cult room in the temple of Luxor (2016) (0)
Ornament, figure and mise en abyme on Roman sarcophagi (2018) (0)
Are Tornadoes Getting Stronger (2013) (0)
To Have and to Hold: An intimate history of collectors and collecting (2003) (0)
Watts, Edward J.The Final Pagan Generation. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 53. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. xvi+327 pp. $34.95 (cloth). (2016) (0)
Art and Pilgrimage (2008) (0)
The Collector's Voice: Critical readings in the practice of collecting, vol. III, Imperial voices (2004) (0)
The Life of Apollonius (2010) (0)
R. A. Smith, The Primacy of vision in Virgil's Aeneid. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 252, 6 illus. ISBN 0-292-70657-x. £28.95/US$45.00. (2007) (0)
Face to face. Portraits of the divine in early Christianity. By Robin Margaret Jensen. Pp. xviii+234 incl. 102 figs. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005(4). $20 (paper). 0 8006 6092 7; 0 8006 3678 3 (2006) (0)
Images de l'Égypte chrétienne. Iconologie copte. By Mahmoud Zibawi. Pp. 239 incl. 291 colour plates and 1 map. Paris: Picard, 2003. €90. 2 7084 0701 5 (2004) (0)
A. Cohen, The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 279, 14 colour pls, 81 figs, ISBN: 0-521-56339-9. £45.00/US$60.00. (1998) (0)
(R.) Osborne, (J.) Tanner (edd.) Art's Agency and Art History . Pp. xiv + 226, ills. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Paper, £24.99, US$39.95, Aus$82.50 (Cased, £50, US$89.95, Aus$165). ISBN: 978-1-4051-3538-2 (978-1-4051-3537-5 hbk). (2008) (0)
Fruits of knowledge and passion (1997) (0)
C. Oliver O’Donnell, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art through a Modern American Mind. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. 272. $99.95 (cloth). (2020) (0)
Figurines. Figuration and the Sense of Scale (Visual conversations in art and archaeology) (2020) (0)
Inscribed within the image: the visual character of early Christian mosaic inscriptions (2012) (0)
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art. By Colum Hourihane. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. xiii + 464 pp. $57.50 cloth. (2011) (0)
Concealment and Revelation: The Pola Casket and the Visuality of Early Christian Relics (2019) (0)
Ian Jenkins & Victoria Turner, The Greek Body (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009), 144 pp. + 132 color illus. (2011) (0)
Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture: Rational, passionate and appetitive (2014) (0)
The Nature of Classical Collecting. Collectors and Collections, 100 BCE–100 CE (2006) (0)
The trophies of the martyrs. An art historical study of early Christian silver reliquaries . By Galit Noga-Banai. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xvi+186+98 colour and black-and-white plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. £70. 978 0 19 921774 8 (2009) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
M. J. Versluys, Aegyptiaca Romana: Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views Of Egypt (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 144). Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xvi + 512, 170 illus. ISBN 90-04-124403. €125.00/US$149.00. (2003) (0)
S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper. The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken or Otherwise Incomplete Objects from the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 248 pp. (2021) (0)
01.06.08, Peers, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels In Byzantium (2001) (0)
Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage by Hillary Kaell (review) (2016) (0)
Preface (2002) (0)
Images of Ancestors. By Jakob Munk Højte. (2004) (0)
Encounter: The Mosaics in the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai (2016) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
THE TERMINOLOGY FOR BEAUTY IN THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY An ancient Greek proverb declares, ‘beautiful things are difficult’. One obvious difficulty arises (2018) (0)
Art and the Christian Apocrypha . By David R. Cartlidge and J. Keith Elliott. Pp. xvi+277 incl. 104 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2001. £19.99 (paper). 0 415 23391 7; 0 415 23392 5 (2003) (0)
100 years of Dura Europos (2021) (0)
Hugh Last Fellowship: Roman art in late antiquity (1999) (0)
Oxford’s Ark (2017) (0)
Mirjam Brusius and Theodor Dunkelgrün, eds., Photography, Antiquity, Scholarship. Special issue of History of Photography 40, no. 3 (August 2016). Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2016. Pp. 139. (2018) (0)
Collected Essays (2007) (0)
The Collector's Voice: Critical readings in the practice of collecting, vol. IV, Contemporary voices (2004) (0)
Book Reviews July 2004 (2004) (0)
The viewer in the Roman landscape (1999) (0)
Jas' Elsner. Review of "Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction" by Karl Galinsky. (1998) (0)
(J.) Hahn, (S.) Emmel and (U.) Gotter Eds. From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal in Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 163). Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp. xi + 378, illus. €133/$198. 9789004131415. (2010) (0)
Encountering the sacred. The debate on Christian pilgrimage in late antiquity . By Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 38.) Pp. xv+250. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2005. £29.95. 0 520 24191 6 (2006) (0)
Art, Pilgrimage and History (1998) (0)
A. Billault: L’Univers de Philostrate . (Collection Latomus 252.) Pp. 144. Brussels: Latomus Revue d’Études Latines, 2000. Paper. ISBN: 2-87031-193-1. (2001) (0)

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