The examples include Christian and non-Christian iconography, and occur from late antiquity onesto the present day

Those that survive are commonly considered esatto be indicative of what was produced. Inferences such as this are basic to archaeology and art history; sometimes, however, the superiorita is misleading. Consider the material of antique sculpture. Literary and epigraphic sources confirm that the imparfaite proportions of bronze and marble were far different mediante ancient cities than they are durante modern collections (Stewart, Reference Stewart 1990: 24–5; Daehner and Lapatin, Reference Daehner, Lapatin, Daehner and Lapatin 2015: 22). Read more