Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004059320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Based on the author's thesis, University of Oxford.
Monumenta Graeca Et Romana
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004059320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Based on the author's thesis, University of Oxford.
Monumenta Graeca et Romana
Author: Brian Christopher MadiganPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004164081
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This catalogue comprises those vases from Corinth and Athens with painted decoration in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Each vase is given a description of salient features, attribution to a painter and date, and discussion of the painted decoration.
Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004135774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. This volume catalogues and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for "damnatio memoriae" and ultimately reveals its praxis to be at the core of Roman cultural identity.
Monumenta graeca et romana: Civil and military architecture
Author: David A. CaccioliPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004172300
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Villanovan and Etruscan collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts not only represent an important source of Classical Antiquity in the United States, but also serve as a historical model of how such artifacts were acquired by large American museums from the late-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. These collections provide museum visitors, scholars, and students with an indepth view into one of antiquity's most fascinating peoples, the Etruscans and their predecessors. The wide-ranging collections contain artifacts from every aspect of Etruscan life such as utilitarian tools and weapons, objects for personal adornment, votive statuettes, and cinerary urns to house the dead. One statuette, the Detroit Rider, is considered to be among the finest surviving examples of Etruscan small sculpture. The catalogue brings together all of these pieces for the first time with photographs and relevant bibliographic sources on their cultural and religious functions in antiquity.
Late Helladic Citadels on Mainland Greece
Author: S. E. IakovidisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004065717
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art
Author: Amy C. SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens—its people, government, and events—as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period.
Monumenta graeca et romana
Author: H. F. MusschePublisher:
ISBN: 9789004059320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
Author: Elise A FriedlandPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199921830
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
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.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography
Author: Lea K. ClinePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190850329
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
"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"--
Roman Crete: New Perspectives
Author: Jane E. FrancisPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785700960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant data for assessing Crete alongside other Roman provinces. New research has also meant a reevaluation of old data in light of new discoveries, and the history and archaeology of Crete is now being rewritten. The breadth of topics addressed by the papers in this volume is an indication of Crete’s vast archaeological potential for contributing to current academic issues such as Romanization/acculturation, climate and landscape studies, regional production and distribution, iconographic trends, domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition to the late-Antique era. These papers confirm Crete’s place as a fully realized participant in the Roman world over the course of many centuries but also position it as a newly discovered source of academic inquiry.