John Wiley & Sons, 2015. — 664 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). 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...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 376 p. In Roman Eyes , Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 336 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 712 p. 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,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 448 p. Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Public baths were popularly viewed as necessities of daily life and important social venues. Given the importance of bathing to the Roman style of living, by endowing...
Routledge, 2013. — 168 p. Michael Grant has specially selected some of the most significant examples of painting, portraits, architecture, mosaic, jewellery and silverware, to give a unique insight into the functions and manifestations of art in the Roman Empire. Art in the Roman Empire shows how many of the most impressive masterpieces were produced outside Rome, on the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 388 S. — (Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy 4). Dieses Buch zu römischen Haushaltsobjekten (instrumenta domestica) widmet sich der Komplexität und Gestaltung der vermeintlich kleinen Dinge des Alltags. Es rückt die Frage in den Fokus, wie verschiedene Gefäße, Geräte, Instrumente und Werkzeuge im Wohnkontext der...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 240 p. It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between portraits on coins and in the round. All of this, however, has never been clearly proven,...
Mondadori, 2016. — 1216 p. "Foggeranno altri con maggiore eleganza spiranti bronzi, credo di certo, e trarranno dal marmo vivi volti, patrocineranno meglio le cause e seguiranno con il compasso i percorsi del cielo e prediranno il corso degli astri: tu, ricorda, o romano, di dominare le genti; queste saranno le tue arti, stabilire norme alla pace, risparmiare i sottomessi e...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 640 S. — (Image & Context 13). Zu den beliebtesten Bildthemen römischer Friessarkophage gehört der blutige Kampf zwischen Amazonen und Griechen. Anders als lange vermutet, ging es den Auftraggebern dieser Sarkophage nicht in erster Linie um den glorreichen Sieg der Griechen, sondern um das grausame Todesschicksal der schönen Kriegerinnen, das...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. — 608 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 35). The combination of image and text is a central element of Roman mosaics from the third to fifth centuries. This volume is the first to present a comprehensive media studies analysis of the complex medial configuration of these artworks that views both media as equal. It reveals mosaics’ communicative...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 374 p. The fact that most ancient marble portraits were once intentionally polychrome has always been lurking at the corners of art historical and archaeological research. Despite the fact, that the colours of the sculpted forms completed, enhanced and even extended the plastic shapes, the topic has not been devoted much dedicated attention. This book...
Ashgate, 2009. — xii + 231 p., 90 ill. This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of objects...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 408 р. — ISBN: 978-1444330267. A History of Roman Art provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject from the founding of Rome to the rule of Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine. Incorporating the most up-to-date information available on the topic, this new textbook explores the creation, use, and meaning of art in the Roman world. Extensively...
C.H. Beck, 2015. — 131 S. Mit dem Aufstieg Roms zum Zentrum eines riesigen Imperiums nahm auch die römische Kunst ihre spezifischen Züge an. Paul Zankers meisterhafte Darstellung zeigt, welche Rolle dabei die Aneignung der griechischen Kultur spielte und wie sich die Bildwelten des öffentlichen und des privaten Raumes in Republik und Kaiserzeit entwickelten. Dabei bringt er die...
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