The Oxford Handbook Of Roman Imagery And Iconography

Author : Lea K. Cline,Nathan T. Elkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190850326

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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography by Lea K. Cline,Nathan T. Elkins Pdf

"Roman imagery and iconography are typically studied under the more general umbrella of Roman art and in broader, medium-specific studies. This handbook focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions of iconographic analysis and visual semiotics that have framed the modern study of these images. As such topics-or, more directly, the isolation of these topics from medium-specific or strictly temporal evaluations of Roman art-are uncommon in monograph-length studies, our goal is that this handbook will be an important reference for both the communicative value of images in the Roman world and the tradition of iconographical analysis. The chapters herein represent contributions from a number of leading and emerging authorities on Roman imagery and iconography from across the world, representing a variety of academic traditions and methods of image analysis"--

Author : Elise A Friedland,Melanie Grunow Sobocinski,Elaine Gazda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199921836

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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture by Elise A Friedland,Melanie Grunow Sobocinski,Elaine Gazda Pdf

The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the eighteenth century. Famous works like the Laocoön, the Arch of Titus, and the colossal portrait of Constantine are familiar to millions. Again and again, scholars have returned to sculpture to answer questions about Roman art, society, and history. Indeed, the field of Roman sculptural studies encompasses not only the full chronological range of the Roman world but also its expansive geography, and a variety of artistic media, formats, sizes, and functions. Exciting new theories, methods, and approaches have transformed the specialized literature on the subject in recent decades. Rather than creating another chronological catalogue of representative examples from various periods, genres, and settings, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture synthesizes current best practices for studying this central medium of Roman art, situating it within the larger fields of Art History, Classical Archaeology, and Roman Studies. This comprehensive volume fills the gap between introductory textbooks and highly focused professional literature. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture conveniently presents new technical, scientific, literary, and theoretical approaches to the study of Roman sculpture in one reference volume while simultaneously complementing textbooks and other publications that present well-known works in the corpus. The contributors to this volume address metropolitan and provincial material from the early republican period through late antiquity in an engaging and fresh style. Authoritative, innovative, and up-to-date, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture will remain an invaluable resource for years to come.

Author : Alyson Roy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111326634

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Empire of Images by Alyson Roy Pdf

Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of Images explores the development of the Roman visual language of power in the Republic in Iberian Peninsula, the Gallic provinces, and Greece and Macedonia, centering the development of imperial imagery in overseas conquest. Drawing on a range of material evidence, this book argues that Roman imperial imagery developed through prolonged interaction with and adaptation by subjugated peoples. Despite their starring role in Roman imagery, the populations of Rome’s provinces continuously reinterpreted and reimagined Roman images of power to navigate their membership in the new imperial community, and in doing so, contributed to the creation of a universal visual language that continues to shape how Rome is understood.

Author : Julia C. Fischer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040016282

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Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire by Julia C. Fischer Pdf

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships. Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire offers a feminist theory that explains why large Imperial cameos were in dialogue and why the medium appears with Octavian and disappears by the Flavian dynasty: female Imperial family members commissioned them to advance their husbands and sons. This volume is an introduction to large Imperial cameos and reveals their importance for the understanding of Roman art and iconography and the implications of its theorized Imperial female patronage. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, classics, and archaeology.

Author : Sinclair W. Bell,Dorian Borbonus,Rose MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009438551

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Freed Persons in the Roman World by Sinclair W. Bell,Dorian Borbonus,Rose MacLean Pdf

How were freed people represented in the Roman world? This volume presents new research about the integration of freed persons into Roman society. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources whose contents have been fundamentally shaped by the forces of domination. Even though freed persons were defined through a common legal status and shared the experience of enslavement and manumission, many different interactions could derive from these commonalities in different periods and localities across the empire. Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. By approaching the literary and epigraphic representations of freed persons in new ways, it nuances the impact of power asymmetries and social strategies on the cultural practices and lived experiences of freed persons.

Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000924480

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Understanding Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen Pdf

Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students. It opens by discussing a series of questions pertaining to the evidence itself and how scholars through the centuries have regarded this material as expressing and transmitting aspects of the developing faith and practice of early adherents of Christianity. It considers possible sources for the various motifs and the complex relationship between words and images, as well as the importance of studying visual and material culture alongside theological and liturgical texts. Rather than organising surviving examples by medium or chronology, the chapters categorise the evidence according to their general iconographic type, such as generic symbols, biblical narratives, and portraits. Each chapter takes up important questions of visual culture, formal style, and the ways in which the iconography is distinct from or shows parallels with contemporary documentary sources like sermons, exegetical works, catechetical lectures, or dogmatic treatises. Concluding with a discussion of the late-emerging depictions of Jesus’s crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, it remains a valuable guide to comprehending the complex theology, history, and context of Christian art. Augmented by over 140 full-colour images, accompanied by parallel text, the interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking approach taken in this extensively revised edition of Understanding Early Christian Art enables students and scholars in fields such as religion and art history to further their understanding and knowledge of the art of the early Christian era.

Author : Sarah F. Derbew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108495288

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Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity by Sarah F. Derbew Pdf

A bold and brilliant new treatment of blackness in ancient Greek literature and visual culture as well as modern reception.

Author : Chris Maunder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198792550

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The Oxford Handbook of Mary by Chris Maunder Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Mary offers an interdisciplinary guide to Marian Studies, including chapters on textual, literary, and media analysis; theology; Church history; art history; studies on devotion in a variety of forms; cultural history; folk tradition; gender analysis; apparitions and apocalypticism. Featuring contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars, the Handbook looks at both Eastern and Western perspectives and attempts to correct imbalance in previous books on Mary towards the West. The volume also considers Mary in Islam and pilgrimages shared by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish adherents. While Mary can be a source of theological disagreement, this authoritative collection shows Mary's rich potential for inter-faith and inter-denominational dialogue and shared experience. It covers a diverse number of topics that show how Mary and Mariology are articulated within ecclesiastical contexts but also on their margins in popular devotion. Newly-commissioned essays describe some of the central ideas of Christian Marian thought, while also challenging popularly-held notions. This invaluable reference for students and scholars illustrates the current state of play in Marian Studies as it is done across the world.

Author : Mark D. Ellison,Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781793611949

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Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity by Mark D. Ellison,Carolyn Osiek Pdf

This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women’s religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity—perspectives often missing or underrepresented in the literary record.

Author : Roy Gibson,Christopher Whitton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108369183

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The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature by Roy Gibson,Christopher Whitton Pdf

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).

Author : Annette Haug,Adrian Hielscher,M. Taylor Lauritsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110764734

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Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture by Annette Haug,Adrian Hielscher,M. Taylor Lauritsen Pdf

The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with cultural significance. With respect to architecture, the analysis of material aesthetics leads to a new understanding of the performance, imitation and transformation of surfaces, including the social meaning of such strategies. In the case of objects, surface treatments are equally important. However, object form (a specific design category), which can enter into tension with materiality, comes into particular focus. Only when materials are shaped do their various qualities emerge, and these qualities are, to a greater or lesser extent, transferred to objects. With a focus primarily on Roman Italy, the papers in this volume underscore the importance of material design and highlight the awareness of this matter in the ancient world.

Author : Alessandro Barchiesi,Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0191743968

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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies by Alessandro Barchiesi,Walter Scheidel Pdf

This is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in the field of Roman studies. Over 50 distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world, and suggest pathways for fresh investigations.

Author : E. A. FRIEDLAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966357663

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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture by E. A. FRIEDLAND Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys,John F. Haldon,Robin Cormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199252466

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies by Elizabeth Jeffreys,John F. Haldon,Robin Cormack Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545632

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Understanding Integration in the Roman World by Anonim Pdf

Integration is a buzzword in the 21st century. However, academics still do not agree on its meaning and, above all, on its consequences. This book offers numerous examples showing that the inhabitants of the Roman Mediterranean were “integrated”, i.e. were aware of the existence of a common framework of coexistence, without this necessarily resulting in a process of cultural convergence. For instance, the Spanish poet Martial explicitly refused to be considered the brother of the Greek Charmenion (10.65): paradoxically, while reaffirming their differences, his satirical epigram confirms the existence of a common frame of reference that encompassed them both. Understanding integration in the Roman world requires paying attention to the complex and varied responses to diversity in Roman times.