Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition—From Antiquity to Modernity and Back

Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Art and Religion in the Divinity School and Art History at the University of Chicago. His research interests include Roman and early Christian art, viewing and viewer-response in art, pilgrimage, the receptions of antiquity including the history of collecting and the museum, art and text.