Late Antiquity: Art in Context by Jens Fleischer et al. chapters on mummy portraits and early icons, Late Antique Architecture, Constantine's use of spolia, the Iconography and Style of the Rothschild Cameo, Christian Lamps and Phocaean red slip ware. Online available.

Transition to Christianity : art of late antiquity, 3rd - 7th century AD by Anastasia Lazaridou catalogue, which explore a period of extraordinary creativity and reveal new and largely unknown aspects of the Greek world of Late Antiquity.

Early Christian Art and Architecture: An Introduction by Guntram Koch an account of architecture sacred and profane, funerary art in catacombs and tombs and especially sarcophagi, the graphic arts and the various forms of art in miniature. illustrated with numerous line drawings and photographs, including ground plans and elevations of churches, actual and conjectural, and there are full descriptions of the art and architecture discussed against historical background. bibliographies.

Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of Early Christianity by Paul Corby Finney

Early Christian and Byzantine Art by John Beckwith Online available.

Understanding Early Christian Art by Robin Margaret Jensen makes the tools of art historians accessible to students of religion, to help them understand better the visual representations of Christianity. It will also aid art historians in comprehending the complex theology, history and context of Christian art.

Late Antique and Early Christian Gems by Jeffrey Spier gathers engraved gems of the late antique period and discusses their chronology, workshops, and iconographical significance. 1000 gems and cameos are described, most of which are illustrated. Online available.

Age of Spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century : catalogue of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Philippe De Montebello Online available.

Picturing the Bible: the earliest Christian art by Jeffrey Spier explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., revealing the story of how Christian art began through insights from recent discoveries.  Online available.

Pseudepigraphical Images in Early Art by Massimo Bernabo pseudepigrapha provided the textual basis for features in biblical representations in early art, especially writings expanding the stories of both the Genesis characters and Moses.

Jewish Images in the Christian Church: art as mirror of the Jewish-Christian conflict, 200-1250 C.E. by Henry N. Claman Beginning in the Third Century with frescoes in the catacombs of Rome, public art began to illustrate the doctrine of supersessionism. a millennium of Christian art outlines the path by which Christians reinterpreted the Hebrew Scriptures to prove they foretold the ascendancy of Christianity.

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph : the art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 by Jas Elsner investigates the role of the visual arts as both reflections and agents of changes. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion.

The Invisible God: the earliest Christians on art by Paul Corby Finney challenges the received opinion that in its earliest manifestations Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed both on principle and in fact to the use of pictures. absence of Christian pictures before A.D. 200 is due to a complex interplay of social, economic, and political factors, and is not, as is commonly assumed, a result of an anti-image ideology. documents the origins of Christian art.

The Clash of Gods: a reinterpretation of early Christian art by Thomas F. Mathews Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his saints.

Coptic Art and Archaeology by Alexander Badaway study of the works of Coptic Egyptians starting in the early Christian period following the Antique and ending with the assimilation of Coptic art into that of Islam. extensive archaeological excavations and on researchers' accounts.

Coptic Monasteries: the art of the Christian Egyptians from the late antique to the Middle Ages by Gawdat Gabra a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage. background information on the origins of the Coptic Church as well as its rites and ceremonies, sketches of some of monasticism's founding figures, and accounts of some of the difficulties they faced, from religious schism to nomadic attacks.

Coptic art by Du Bourguet, Pierre

Churches in Rocks: early Christian art in Ethiopia by Georg Gerster; Richard Hosking