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

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Le Quai Saint Michel et Notre-Dame de Paris (detail; 1901), Maximilien Luce. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

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Over the centuries Notre-Dame de Paris has become much more than a place of worship – it is a symbol of a nation

Inside the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul.

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