Jaś Elsner

Jaś Elsner is the Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford. He was nominated as an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in 2019.

Research Interests: His work spans comparative art history, focusing on late antiquity across the Mediterranean and Asia, including the visual cultures of Christianity (Latin West, Byzantium, and Asian/African traditions) and Buddhism along the Silk Road and Indian subcontinent. He also explores art reception, pilgrimage, ekphrasis, and historiography.

Scientific Memberships & Roles:

• Principal Investigator, Empires of Faith Project (2013–2018)
• Co-editor of monograph series Greek Culture in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press) and Ashgate Studies in Pilgrimage
• Editorial board member of multiple international journals

Email: jas.elsner@ccc.ox.ac.uk