Art Science And The Natural World In The Ancient Mediterranean 300 Bc To Ad 100

Author : Joshua J. Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192659392

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Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100 by Joshua J. Thomas Pdf

The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as zoology and botany during the fourth century BC, these disciplines took on exciting new directions during Hellenistic times. Kings imported exotic species into their royal capitals from faraway lands. Travel writers described unusual creatures that they had never previously encountered. And buyers from a range of social levels chose works of art featuring animals and plants to decorate their palaces, houses and tombs. While textual sources shed some light on these developments, the central premise of Art, Science and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean is that our surviving artistic evidence permits a fuller understanding. Accordingly, the study brings together a rich body of visual material that invites new observations on how and why knowledge of the natural world became so important during this period. It is suggested that this cultural phenomenon affected many different groups in society: from kings in Alexandria and Pergamon to provincial aristocrats in the Levant, and from the Julio-Claudian imperial family to prosperous homeowners in Pompeii. By analysing the works of art produced for these individuals, a vivid picture emerges of this remarkable aspect of ancient culture.

Author : Joshua James Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art and natural history
ISBN : 0192659383

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Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100 by Joshua James Thomas Pdf

A study on the intersection of art, science, and the natural world in Hellenistic and Roman times.

Author : Joshua James Thomas,Joshua J. Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192844897

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Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100 by Joshua James Thomas,Joshua J. Thomas Pdf

The first monograph-length study on the intersection of art, science, and the natural world in Hellenistic and Roman times. Examines a series of mosaics, wall-paintings, and papyri surviving from the period 300 BC - AD 100, setting them in their historical and cultural context.

Author : Maria Gerolemou,George Kazantzidis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514665

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Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity by Maria Gerolemou,George Kazantzidis Pdf

The first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity.

Author : Robert Cioffi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192870537

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel by Robert Cioffi Pdf

In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic centre of the ancient Greek novel during the genre's heyday in the Roman empire. He shows how the region is repeatedly portrayed in these fictions as a dual-site of ethnographic representation and of resistance to imperial power.

Author : Mantha Zarmakoupi
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606068502

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Shaping Roman Landscape by Mantha Zarmakoupi Pdf

A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natural and built environment, as well as ideas about nature and art, were intertwined with architectural and decorative trends. This illustrated volume examines how representations of real and depicted landscapes, and the merging of both in visual space, contributed to the creation of novel languages of art and architecture. Drawing on a diverse body of archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence, this study applies an ecocritical lens that moves beyond the limits of traditional iconography. Chapters consider, for example, how garden designs and paintings appropriated the cultures and ecosystems brought under Roman control and the ways miniature landscape paintings chronicled the transformation of the Italian shoreline with colonnaded villas, pointing to the changing relationship of humans with nature. Making a timely and original contribution to current discourses on ecology and art and architectural history, Shaping Roman Landscape reveals how Roman ideas of landscape, and the decorative strategies at imperial domus and villa complexes that gave these ideas shape, were richly embedded with meanings of nature, culture, and labor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004529069

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Editing and Commenting on Statius' Silvae by Anonim Pdf

The Silvae by Statius dethroned Virgil from the Studio in Naples, fostered the creation of a new genre, offered a model for court poetry, and seduced the most prestigious Humanists in the most vibrant centres of Renaissance Italy and the Netherlands. The collection preserves magnificent buildings otherwise lost; speaks of stones otherwise unknown; and memorializes people, rituals, and social relationships that would have passed into oblivion in silence. This volume offers a fresh look into approaches to the Silvae by editors and commentators, both at the time of the rediscovery of the poems and today.

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004254053

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The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History by William V. Harris Pdf

The product of a collaboration between scientists, historians and archaeologists, this book breaks new ground in the study of the long-term interaction between environmental factors, including climate, and human beings.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Carlos A. Picón,Richard Daniel De Puma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588392176

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Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Carlos A. Picón,Richard Daniel De Puma Pdf

A history of the Department of Greek and Roman art -- Floor plan of the galleries of the Department of Greek and Roman art -- Art of the Neolithic and the Aegean bronze age : ca. 6000- B.C. -- Art of geometric and archaic Greece : ca. 1050-480 B.C. -- Art of classical Greece : ca. 480-323 B.C. -- Art of the Hellenistic Age : ca. 323-31 B.C. -- Art of Cyprus : ca. 3900 B.C.-ca. A.D. 100 -- Art of Etruria : ca. 900-100 B.C. -- Art of the Roman Empire : ca. 31 B.C.-A.D. 330 -- Notes on the works of art : Art of the Neolithic and the Aegean bronze age -- Art of geometric and archaic Greece -- Art of classical Greece -- Art of the Hellenistic age -- Art of Cyprus -- Art of Etruria -- Art of the Roman Empire -- Concordance -- Index of works of art

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Richard Daniel De Puma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Architecture, Roman
ISBN : 1588392198

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Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Richard Daniel De Puma Pdf

A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.

Author : Hugo Buchthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:B4422869

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Art of the Mediterranean World, A.D. 100 to 1400 by Hugo Buchthal Pdf

Author : William Vernon Harris
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9004253432

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The Ancient Mediterranean Environment Between Science and History by William Vernon Harris Pdf

The product of a collaboration between scientists, historians and archaeologists, this book breaks new ground in the study of the long-term interaction between environmental factors, including climate, and human beings.

Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0191534870

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The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt by Christina Riggs Pdf

This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art, supported by catalogue entries, the study explores fundamental questions such as how artists combine the iconographies and representational forms of different visual traditions, and why two distinct visual traditions were employed in Roman Egypt.

Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson,Philippe De Montebello,John Kent Lydecker,Carlos A. Picón
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 9781588392220

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Roman Art by Nancy Lorraine Thompson,Philippe De Montebello,John Kent Lydecker,Carlos A. Picón Pdf

A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.

Author : Paul Stirton
Publisher : West 86th
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 022633693X

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West 86th, Volume 22, Issue 1 by Paul Stirton Pdf

Published on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center, West 86th focuses on scholarship in material culture, design history, and the decorative arts. In this issue, Eric Anderson examines how Angerer's photographs of Hans Makart's studio were informed by contemporary theories of color and emotion, anticipating many of the themes that would engage the modernists at the turn of the century. Monica Smith provides an archaeological perspective of the molded terra-cotta jewelry produced in the ancient Indian city of Sisupalgarh some five millennia ago, which indicate some patterns of economic activity and taste that anticipate the modern world. Anna McSweeney examines Owen Jones's Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra (1842-45), well known as the primary source for Islamic decoration in the Victorian period. Lastly, is a translation of the main part of "Les arts décoratifs et les machines," an article by Pedro Rioux de Maillou that appeared in the Revue des arts décoratifs in 1894-5. As in all issues, there is a range of reviews of current books and exhibitions devoted to design and the decorative arts.