Anthony Cutler is Professor of Art History at Penn State University

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One of the hexapteryga (detail) in the pendentives of the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, photo: Dumbarton Oaks

The short step from pagan portraits to early Christian icons

Pagan and Christian art have more in common than you think – or so a polemical new book argues

22 Jun 2017

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