Jorge Tomás García is Assistant Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez is Assistant Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

• Introduction: Iconotropy and the Alteration of Religious Images Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez1. Sensuous Encounters: The Adornment of Cult Statues in Ancient Greece Cecilie Brøns2. Taming the Gorgon: Visual Iconotropy in the Archaic Greek Medusa Rafael Jackson-Martín3. The Religion of Theft: Stolen Cult Images in Ancient Greek Ritual and Cult Aaron Beck-Schachter4. The New Life of Greek Images Outside Greece: The Case of IberiaAdolfo J. Domínguez5. What Does an Idol Look Like? Visualizing Idolatry in Late Antique Jewish and Christian ArtGiovanni Gasbarri6. Pagan Statues in Islamic Context: Iconotropy in Tenth-Century al-AndalusJorge Elices Ocón7. Cross-Mediterranean Misinterpretations of Sacred ImageryMichele Bacci8. Enchanted by the ‘Madonna Nicopeia’: Reception, Myth and the Methodological Pitfalls of the Art Historian Meital Shai9. Avalokiteśvara is Mutating Again: Chinese and Japanese Encounters with the Virgin Mary Marco Musillo

Jorge Tomás García is Assistant Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez is Assistant Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

• Introduction: Iconotropy and the Alteration of Religious Images Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez1. Sensuous Encounters: The Adornment of Cult Statues in Ancient Greece Cecilie Brøns2. Taming the Gorgon: Visual Iconotropy in the Archaic Greek Medusa Rafael Jackson-Martín3. The Religion of Theft: Stolen Cult Images in Ancient Greek Ritual and Cult Aaron Beck-Schachter4. The New Life of Greek Images Outside Greece: The Case of IberiaAdolfo J. Domínguez5. What Does an Idol Look Like? Visualizing Idolatry in Late Antique Jewish and Christian ArtGiovanni Gasbarri6. Pagan Statues in Islamic Context: Iconotropy in Tenth-Century al-AndalusJorge Elices Ocón7. Cross-Mediterranean Misinterpretations of Sacred ImageryMichele Bacci8. Enchanted by the ‘Madonna Nicopeia’: Reception, Myth and the Methodological Pitfalls of the Art Historian Meital Shai9. Avalokiteśvara is Mutating Again: Chinese and Japanese Encounters with the Virgin Mary Marco Musillo