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Author : Tonio Hölscher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521665698
This book, first published in 2004, develops a theoretical concept for understanding the Roman art of images.
Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson,Philippe De Montebello,John Kent Lydecker,Carlos A. Picón
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 9781588392220
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 : Glenys Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521842730
Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.
Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521766524
Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature is best understood when read alongside the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity.
Author : Peter Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521816328
An introduction to the study of ancient Roman art in its social context.
Author : Jas Elsner
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521430305
This is a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the interface between words and images in the Roman world.
Author : Amy Russell,Monica Hellström
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108835121
Explores how artists and patrons at all social levels helped form and evolve the visual language of the Roman Empire.
Author : Barbara E. Borg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119077893
A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art. Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman art Contributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled expertise covering a broad range of international approaches Focuses on the socio-historical aspects of Roman art, covering several topics that have not been presented in any detail in English Includes both close readings of individual art works and general discussions Provides an overview of main aspects of the subject and an introduction to current debates in the field
Author : Wannaporn Rienjang,Peter Stewart
Publisher : Classical Art Research Centre
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789696967
Gandhāran art is often regarded as the epitome of cultural exchange in antiquity. The ancient region of Gandhāra, centred on what is now the northern tip of Pakistan, has been called the ‘crossroads of Asia’. The Buddhist art produced in and around this area in the first few centuries AD exhibits extraordinary connections with other traditions across Asia and as far as the Mediterranean. Since the nineteenth century, the Graeco-Roman associations of Gandhāran art have attracted particular attention. Classically educated soldiers and administrators of that era were astonished by the uncanny resemblance of many works of Gandhāran sculpture to Greek and Roman art made thousands of miles to the west. More than a century later we can recognize that the Gandhāran artists’ appropriation of classical iconography and styles was diverse and extensive, but the explanation of this ‘influence’ remains puzzling and elusive. The Gandhāra Connections project at the University of Oxford’s Classical Art Research Centre was initiated principally to cast new light on this old problem. This volume is the third set of proceedings of the project’s annual workshop, and the first to address directly the question of cross-cultural influence on and by Gandhāran art. The contributors wrestle with old controversies, particularly the notion that Gandhāran art is a legacy of Hellenistic Greek rule in Central Asia and the growing consensus around the important role of the Roman Empire in shaping it. But they also seek to present a more complex and expansive view of the networks in which Gandhāra was embedded. Adopting a global perspective on the subject, they examine aspects of Gandhāra’s connections both within and beyond South Asia and Central Asia, including the profound influence which Gandhāran art itself had on the development of Buddhist art in China and India.
Author : Steven L. Tuck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119653301
A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A History of Roman Art is an expansive survey of the painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture of ancient Rome. This acclaimed textbook provides a fully-illustrated narrative history of Roman art that spans a millennium, from the early origins of Rome to the era of Emperor Constantine. Interwoven throughout the text are themes of Rome's cultural inclusiveness and the importance of art in promoting Roman values, helping students understand how diverse cultures contributed to Roman life. Accessible, chronologically-organized chapters provide numerous examples of the arts, their cultural and historical context, descriptions of artistic techniques, and writings by ancient authors—enabling students to develop a rich appreciation of art’s importance in the Roman world. Now in its second edition, this market-leading textbook features thoroughly revised content throughout. Additional images and excerpts from literary sources are complemented by new historical discussions of metalwork, carved gems, glass, and sarcophagi. This edition features more maps and illustrations, in-depth analysis of iconography, greater emphasis on the types of objects used to decorate the lives of ordinary Romans, expanded coverage of freedmen and women as artists, subjects, and patrons, and much more. A number of works that represent popular art have been added. That is, art in the everyday Roman world, rather than just the large scale works of sculpture and architecture of elite patrons. It also reveals patterns of artistic workshops, trade, and social and economic networks. Additionally, this edition takes into account new approaches in scholarship. This comprehensive textbook: Provides a thorough introduction to Roman art history featuring more than 400 high quality images and illustrations Includes a full set of pedagogical tools, such as historical timelines, key term definitions, and updated references and further reading suggestions Offers “Scholarly Perspective,” “A View from the Provinces,” “More on Myth,” and “Art and Literature” textboxes in each chapter Includes a companion website containing PowerPoint slides and additional instructor resources A History of Roman Art, Second Edition is an ideal primary or secondary text for courses on Roman art and archaeology, Roman art and architecture, Greek and Roman art, and general Roman civilization, history, and culture.
Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191081101
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations.
Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606061015
Traditional studies of Roman art have sought to identify an indigenous style distinct from Greek art and in the process have neglected the large body of Roman work that creatively recycled Greek artworks. Now available in paperback, this fresh reassessment offers instead a cultural history of the functions of the visual arts, the messages that these images carried, and the values that they affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire. The analysis begins at the point at which the characteristic features of Roman art started to emerge, when the Romans were exposed to Hellenistic culture through their conquest of Greek lands in the third century B.C. As a result, the values and social and political structure of Roman society changed, as did the functions and character of the images it generated. This volume, presented in very clear and accessible language, offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. "Zanker, one of the foremost ancient Roman art historians, has produced an excellent general study of Roman art and its reception. . . . This book would be ideal for students at all levels interested in Roman art, history, and culture."—Choice
Author : Rosemary Canavan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161517164
What we think of our bodies and what we wear says something about who we are and how we belong. This was the same in the ancient world. Rosemary Canavan explores the imagery of clothing and body in the first century CE Christian writing. An examination of statuary, funerary monuments and coins in this geographical location contemporaneous with the letter's writing reveals how clothing and body images were understood. This is then placed in dialogue with the metaphorical use of clothing and body in other texts, especially the Letter to the Colossians. Social identity and rhetorical studies draw on archaeological, epigraphical, iconographical and literary sources to formulate a new approach to biblical interpretation aptly named "visual exegesis."
Author : Clemente Marconi
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199783304
This handbook explores key aspects of art and architecture in ancient Greece and Rome. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars of various generations, nationalities, and backgrounds, it discusses Greek and Roman ideas about art and architecture, as expressed in both texts and images, along with the production of art and architecture in the Greek and Roman world.
Author : Michael Koortbojian
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783111086521
This book assesses the role of relief in the representation of space in Graeco-Roman artistic practice and its study – from Winckelmann to the mid-twentieth century – when Classical art developed as a theoretical discipline. The role of relief in the history of ancient sculpture has long been acknowledged, yet the problems posed by an engagement with the representation of space have not been a subject of specific and sustained inquiry. Neither a conventional history nor a comprehensive historiography, this book traces the study of relief – of its formal character, its artistic purpose, its aesthetic significance, and its historical treatment. The contribution to scholarship is three-fold: (1) By means of a wide array of examples, the book demonstrates that the visual strategies employed to represent space during the Graeco-Roman period were a continuously evolving repertory tied to the refinement of techniques and the transformation of styles that those techniques brought into being. (2) It examines ideas now commonplace, based on scholarship now long-neglected if not completely forgotten. And (3) it reveals how competing interpretations of the representation of space in relief elaborated new approaches to the monuments and their representations.
