- Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1985
- M.A., University of Chicago, 1980
- B.A., Smith College, 1976
Sarah Bassett
Associate Professor Emerita, Art History
Associate Professor Emerita, Art History
late antique, early medieval and Byzantine aesthetics; late antique portraiture; early Christian icons; the reception of the classical past in late antiquity and the Byzantine middle ages; late antique and early medieval urbanism
The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
“Late Antique art and Modernist Vision,” in C. Olovsdotter, ed. Envisioning worlds in Late antique Art. New Perspectives on Abstraction and Symbolism in Late-Roman and Early-Byzantine Visual Culture (c. 300 -600) (2018). (Berlin: De Gruyter): 5-28.
“The Topography of Triumph in Late Antique Constantinople”, in Fabian Goldbeck, and Johannes Wienand (eds.) Der römische Triumph in Prinzipat und Spätantike (2017). (Berlin: De Gruyter): 511-54.
“‘Curious art’: myth, sculpture, and Christian response in late antiquity,” in H. Leppin and J. Rüpke (eds.) Antike Mythologie in christlichen Kontexten der Spätantike - Bilder, Räume, Texte/ Classical Mythology in the Context of Late Antiquity – Images, Spaces, Texts (Berlin: Humbolt Unversität zu Berlin, 2016): 239-60.
“Collecting and the Creation of History” in M. Ghatan and D. Peggazzano, (eds.). Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World (Leiden: Brill, 2015): 145-55.
“Late Antique Honorific Sculpture in Constantinople,” in S. Birk, T. M. Kristensen, B. Poulsen, eds. Using Images in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2014): 78-95.