Dr.
John (Jaś) Elsner
University of Oxford
Art historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
2009
International Honorary Member
British Art Historian and Classicist. Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Late Antique Art, University of Oxford; previously taught at the Courtauld Institute in London. Visiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago. Leverhulme Senior Research Keeper, British Museum. Has also held visiting positions at British School at Rome, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Free University of Brussels, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, UCLA, the Institute of Fine Art in New York and Princeton University. Known for work on Roman art, including Late Antiquity and Byzantine art, as well as the historiography of art history. Writer and editor of many collective books on topics as diverse as Pausanias, Philostratus, ekphrasis and the description of art, pilgrimage, and the cultural history of travel. Major publications are: Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity (1995) and Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (2007). As of 2013, Principal Investigator on the Empires of Faith Project between the British Museum and Wolfson College, Oxford, which is exploring the visual cultures of the world religions in the Mediterranean and Asia between 200 and 800 AD.
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