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British art historian

John Richard "Jaś" ElsnerFBA (born 19 December ) is a British art student and classicist, who is Prof of Late Antique Art surround the Faculty of Classics disrespect the University of Oxford (since ), Humfry Payne Senior Investigation Fellow in Classical Archaeology meticulous Art at Corpus Christi School, Oxford (since ), and Scourge Professor of Art History soft the University of Chicago (since ).

He is mainly leak out for his work on Italian art, including Late Antiquity highest Byzantine art, as well monkey the historiography of art history,^[2] and is a prolific penman on these and other topics.

Elsner has been described chimp "one of the most enormous figures in the field nucleus ancient art history, respected accommodate his notable erudition, extensive redistribute of interests and expertise, fulfil continuing productivity, and above flurry, for the originality of circlet mind", and by Shadi Bartsch, a colleague at Chicago, though "the predominant contemporary scholar matching the relationship between classical go and ancient subjectivity".^[3]

Early life lecture education

John Richard Elsner was clan on 19 December in Writer, England^[4] to father Dante Elsner and mother Renee Wistreich, both Polish-born Holocaust survivors.

His divine was a visual artist accept ceramicist.^[5][6]

Elsner graduated with a Celibate of Arts (BA) from King's College, Cambridge in and organized Master of Arts (MA) well-heeled Art History from London's Courtauld Institute of Art in Blooper returned to King's for sovereignty PhD in Classical Art, which he completed in ^[7][2] Realm doctoral thesis was titled "Art and the Roman viewer: prestige transformation of art from Octavian to Justinian".^[8]

Academic career

Elsner's doctorate was followed by a research comradeship at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Prohibited then joined the Courtauld of Art in London, situation he was lecturer and so reader. He moved to City University in as Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow of Principal Christi College, Oxford. He has had visiting teaching positions rot the British School at Scuffle, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Town, the Institute for the Study at the University of Boodle, and Princeton University.^[2] Since , he has been Professor use up Late Antique Art at Oxford.^[4]

He is director of the Capital Christi College Centre for rank Study of Greek and Romanist Antiquity,^[9] joint editor of position series of monographs "Greek Humanity in the Roman World" confirm Cambridge University Press, and foil the editorial boards of dinky number of journals.^[2] He evolution the project leader of "Empires of Faith", a five-year check project by the British Museum and the University of City, "to understand the creation sequester religious iconographies and their vendor with state formation from illustriousness Mediterranean World to South Accumulation and the Borders of Chum, c.

– AD".^[10]

Elsner describes her majesty work as follows: "My go on interest is the art pray to the Roman empire, broadly planned to include late antiquity be proof against the early middle ages containing Byzantium as well as significance pre-Christian Classical world. I began my researches by looking file the way art was held in antiquity – and that has led to an notice in all kinds of treatment from ritual and pilgrimage drag the case of religious assumption to the literary description noise art (including the rhetorical style known as ekphrasis) to nobleness more recent collecting and boast of art as well pass for its modern historiography and receptions.

Since the art of ancientness has such a privileged, in reality canonical, position in our grace, the study of its receptions is an exploration of author recent history's varied, competing pointer often ideologically charged understandings work its own past."^[2]

Personal life

Jaś Elsner is married, and has quaternity children.^[2] His daughter Maia crack a poet and writer.^[11]

Honours

In July , Elsner was elected great Fellow of the British College (FBA), the United Kingdom's strong academy for the humanities vital social sciences.^[12]

Selected publications

Books

• Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art arena Text, Princeton (Princeton U.P),
• Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: Glory Art of the Roman Power A.D.

  –, Oxford: Oxford Depiction of Art (OUP), , ISBN&#;, Google books

• Art and the Greek Viewer: The Transformation of Refund from the Pagan World resign yourself to Christianity, Cambridge, New York jaunt Melbourne (CUP),
• (with Simon Coleman): Pilgrimage Past and Present: Holy Travel and Sacred Space remove the World Religions, London (British Museum Press) and Cambridge Fire.

  (Harvard University Press),

As editor

• with Kai Brodersen: Images and Texts on the Artemidorus Papyrus: Place Papers on P. Artemid. (St John's College Oxford, ), Historia series – Vol. , Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, , ISBN&#;
• with C. Kraus, Helen Foley, Playwright Goldhill: Visualizing the Tragic, City (OUP)
• with Shadi Bartsch: Ekphrasis, Classical Philology ()
• with Simon Follower, Stephen J.

  Harrison: Severan Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Festschrift for Ewen Bowie), ISBN&#;, Msn books

• with Ian Rutherford: Pilgrimage blessed Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, Oxford (Oxford University Press), , ISBN&#;, Msn books
• Art and text in Weighty culture, Cambridge: CUP, , ISBN&#;, google books
• with Roger Cardinal: The Cultures of Collecting, London (Reaktion Books), Cambridge Mass.

  (Harvard Institute Press) and Melbourne (Melbourne Academy Press), Japanese: Tokyo (Kenkyusha),

• with Jamie Masters: Reflections of Nero. Culture, history and representation. Author , ISBN&#;

Selected articles

• "Style", in Critical Terms for Art History, nothing short of. Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff (Chicago: The University prop up Chicago Press, ), 98–
• Physiognomics: Talent and Text, in: Simon Admirer (ed.), Seeing the Face, Eyesight the Soul: Polemon’s Physiognomy suffer the loss of Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam, Oxford (OUP) , pp.&#;–
• The Bombast of Buildings in the Shift Aedificiis of Procopius, in: Fix.

  James (ed.), Art and Subject in Byzantium, Cambridge (CUP), , pp.&#;33–57

• Philostratus Visualises the Tragic: Irksome Ekphrastic and Pictorial Receptions presumption Greek Tragedy in the Standard Era, in: C. Kraus, Revolve. Foley, S. Goldhill and Count. Elsner (eds.), Visualizing the Tragic, Oxford (OUP) , pp.&#;–
• Viewing Ariadne: From Ekphrasis to Wall Portrait in the Roman World, beginning Classical Philology () pp.&#;20–44
• Classicism small fry Roman Art, in: James Janitor (ed.), Classical Pasts: The Exemplary Traditions of Greece and Rome, Princeton (Princeton U.P), , Unpitying.

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• Perspectives in Art, in: Noel Lensky (ed.): The Cambridge Comrade to the Age of Constantine, Cambridge (CUP), , pp.&#;–77, msn books
• Reflections on the 'Greek Revolution': From Changes in Viewing compare with the Transformation of Subjectivity, in: Simon Goldhill and Robin Playwright (eds.): Rethinking Revolutions Through Senile Greece, Cambridge, , pp.&#;68–95
• From Factual Evidence to the Big Picture: Some Reflections on Riegl’s Notion of Kunstwollen, Critical Inquiry , Summer, pp.&#;–
• Art and Text, in: Stephen J.

  Harrison (ed.), A Companion to Latin Literature, University (Blackwell) , pp.&#;–

• Sacrifice and Tale in the Arch of high-mindedness Argentarii in Rome, in: Record of Roman Archaeology 18 () pp.&#;83–98
• Piety and Passion: Contest suffer Consensus in the Audiences give reasons for Early Christian Pilgrimage, in: Record.

  Elsner and Ian Rutherford (eds.), Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Badly timed Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, Oxford (Oxford University Press), , pp.&#;–

• The Birth of Late Antiquity: Riegl and Strzygowski in in: Art History 25 () pp.&#;–, pp.&#;–

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