Patrons, Houses and Viewers in Pompeii
Author | : Jessica Davis Powers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jessica Davis Powers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brenda Longfellow |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 047213065X |
A fascinating shift toward more nuanced interpretations of Roman art that look at different kinds of social knowledge and local contexts
Author | : Sandra R. Joshel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521191645 |
The Material Life of Roman Slaves retrieves and represents the physical environment and lives of Roman slaves.
Author | : Nikolaus Dietrich |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 3110468832 |
How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman materials have proved instrumental in shaping modern assumptions. On the other hand, those ideologies are fundamentally removed from ancient ideas: an ancient perspective can therefore shed light on larger aesthetic debates about what images are – or indeed what they should be. This anthology of specially commissioned essays explores a variety of case studies (both literary and art historical alike): it discusses materials from across the ancient Mediterranean, and from Geometric art all the way through to late antiquity; the book also tackles questions of ‘figure’ and ‘ornament’ in relation to different media – including painting, free-standing statues, relief sculpture, mosaics and architecture. A particular feature of the volume lies in bringing together different national academic traditions, building a bridge between formalist approaches and broader cultural historical perspectives.
Author | : Elise A. Friedland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199921822 |
Situates the study of Roman sculpture within the fields of art history, classical archaeology, and Roman studies, presenting technical, scientific, literary, and theoretical approaches.
Author | : Elaine K. Gazda |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472111893 |
Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?
Author | : Caitlín Eilís Barrett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2019-03-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0190641363 |
Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlín Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden. Through paintings and mosaics portraying the Nile, canals that turned the garden itself into a miniature "Nilescape," and statuary depicting Egyptian themes, many gardens in Pompeii offered ancient visitors evocations of a Roman vision of Egypt. Simultaneously faraway and familiar, these imagined landscapes made the unfathomable breadth of empire compatible with the familiarity of home. In contrast to older interpretations that connect Roman "Aegyptiaca" to the worship of Egyptian gods or the problematic concept of "Egyptomania," a contextual analysis of these garden assemblages suggests new possibilities for meaning. In Pompeian houses, Egyptian and Egyptian-looking objects and images interacted with their settings to construct complex entanglements of "foreign" and "familiar," "self" and "other." Representations of Egyptian landscapes in domestic gardens enabled individuals to present themselves as sophisticated citizens of empire. Yet at the same time, household material culture also exerted an agency of its own: domesticizing, familiarizing, and "Romanizing" once-foreign images and objects. That which was once imagined as alien and potentially dangerous was now part of the domus itself, increasingly incorporated into cultural constructions of what it meant to be "Roman." Featuring brilliant illustrations in both color and black and white, Domesticating Empire reveals the importance of material culture in transforming household space into a microcosm of empire.
Author | : Franklin Webster Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691244154 |
Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."