RP 198: A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum

<p>Explore the new insights into early Chrisitan icongraphy with this catalogue of the British Museum’s collection with beautiful colour illustrations.</p> <p>After the Museo Sacro at the Vatican, the British Museum holds the most extensive and important collection of Early Christian and Late Antique gold glass in Europe and the United States. With the last publication of the British Museum’s collection in<br />1901, this publication not only brings the collection up-to- date, but offers a radical reinterpretation of technical practices, workshop practices, location and distribution.</p> <p>This is the first study to differentiate workshops on the basis of detailed iconographic analyses of individual pieces of gold glass both in the British Museum and the Vatican.</p>

This beautifully illustrated book explores the new insights into early Christian iconography.

Second to the Museo Sacro at the Vatican, the British Museum holds the most extensive and important collection of Early Christian and Late Antique gold glass in Europe and the United States. With the last publication of the British Museum’s collection in 1901, this publication not only brings the collection up-to-date, but offers a radical reinterpretation of technical practices, workshop practices, location and distribution.

This is the first study to differentiate workshops on the basis of detailed iconographic analyses of individual pieces of gold glass both in the British Museum and the Vatican.