Painting Ethics And Aesthetics In Rome
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Author | : Nathaniel B. Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108349706 |
In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. Nathaniel B. Jones argues that the depiction of panel painting within mural ensembles functioned as a meta-pictorial reflection on the practice and status of painting itself. This phenomenon provides crucial visual evidence for both the reception of Greek culture and the interconnected ethical and aesthetic values of art in the Roman world. Roman meta-pictures, this book reveals, not only navigated social debates on the production and consumption of art, but also created space on the Roman wall for new modes of expression relating to pictorial genres, the role of medium in artistic practice, and the history of painting. Richly illustrated, the volume will be important for anyone interested in the social, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of artworks, in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond.
Author | : Roger Ling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1991-03-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521315951 |
A general survey of Roman wall painting from the second century B.C. through the fourth century A.D., traces the origins, chronological development, subjects, techniques, and social context of the influential art form.
Author | : Verity Platt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316943275 |
The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within.
Author | : Ellen Perry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2005-01-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521831659 |
Arguing that the scholarship on this topic has not appreciated Roman values in the visual arts, this book examines Roman strategies for the appropriation of the Greek visual culture. A knowledge of Roman values explains the entire range of visual appropriation in Roman art, which includes not only the phenomenon of copying, but also such manifestations as allusion, parody, and, most importantly, aemulatio, successful rivalry with one's models.
Author | : Emanuel Mayer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2012-06-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0674065344 |
"Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman times--art, architecture, and household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewhere--belonged to, and was made for, artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes, Emanuel Mayer boldly argues, turns out to be distinctly middle class and requires a radically new framework of analysis. Starting in the first century B.C.E., ancient communities, largely shaped by farmers living within city walls, were transformed into vibrant urban centers where wealth could be quickly acquired through commercial success. From 100 B.C.E. to 250 C.E., the archaeological record details the growth of a cosmopolitan empire and a prosperous new class rising along with it. Not as keen as statesmen and intellectuals to show off their status and refinement, members of this new middle class found novel ways to create pleasure and meaning. In the décor of their houses and tombs, Mayer finds evidence that middle-class Romans took pride in their work and commemorated familial love and affection in ways that departed from the tastes and practices of social elites."--Jacket.
Author | : Jaś Elsner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2014-10-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107000718 |
Demonstrates the central significance of rhetoric in ancient responses to and receptions of Roman art.
Author | : Oleg V. Bychkov |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052154792X |
An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.
Author | : Hérica Valladares |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108875556 |
Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Hérica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second half of the first century BCE Roman poets, artists, and their audience became increasingly interested in describing, depicting, and visualizing the more sentimental aspects of amatory experience. During this period, we see two important and simultaneous developments: Latin love elegy crystallizes as a poetic genre, while a new style in Roman wall painting emerges. Valladares' book is the first to correlate these two phenomena properly, showing that they are deeply intertwined. Rather than postulating a direct correspondence between images and texts, she offers a series of mutually reinforcing readings of painting and poetry that ultimately locate the invention of a new romantic ideal within early imperial debates about domesticity and the role of citizens in Roman society.
Author | : Richard Brilliant |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2000-05-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520216822 |
Several Laocoons are identified in this study: the alleged lost "Greek original"; the extant marbles sculpted in the first century; the sixteenth-century restoration and its affect; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topos of critical judgment; and the twentieth-century re-restored artifact of ancient art.
Author | : Annette Haug |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2021-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110764768 |
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.