ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Unless otherwise stated, the images are the author’s own. The following
images have been reproduced with permission:
Cover image Saint Thecla with Wild Beasts and Angels, Egyptian, 5th century
CE Limestone, 3¾ × 25½ inches (9.5 × 64.8 cm). By kind per-
missions of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
Missouri. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 48–10.
Photo: Jamison Miller
Figure 1.3 Empress Ariadne, c. AD 500. Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna
Figure 2.1 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 2.2 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 2.3 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 3.1 Nave. Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. © 2011. Photo
Scala, Florence
Figure 3.4 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 5.1 © RMN / Les frères Chuzeville
Figure 6.3 Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Plut. 9.28, c.
95v. Courtesy of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali,
Italy. Any further reproduction prohibited.