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| Author | : Philip Kiernan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2020-06-11 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1108487343 |
A biography of how cult images functioned in Roman temples. It explores their creation, use, and eventual destruction.
| Author | : Jorge Tomás García |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2022-04-06 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1000574210 |
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2015-08-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047441656 |
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.
| Author | : Philippa Adrych |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0198792530 |
This work presents six case-studies of objects from different periods and regions of antiquity that are labelled by variations of the name Mithra, including the Roman Mithras, Persian Mihr, and Bactrian Miiro. Each chapter places each object in its original context, before questioning its role in religious ritual, tradition, and belief
| Author | : Valentino Gasparini |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 1191 |
| Release | : 2018-10-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004381341 |
In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2020-10-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004440143 |
This book fills a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Focusing on the visual language surrounding these cults, it aims to understand how images depict mysteries in different cults: Dionysus, Mithras, Mother of the Gods, and Isiac cults.
| Author | : Amy Russell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1108835120 |
Explores how artists and patrons at all social levels helped form and evolve the visual language of the Roman Empire.
| Author | : Verity Jane Platt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 501 |
| Release | : 2011-07-28 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0521861713 |
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.
| Author | : Katherine M. D. Dunbabin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780521822527 |
Dining was an important social occasion in the classical world. Scenes of drinking and dining decorate the wall paintings and mosaic pavements of many Roman houses. They are also painted in tombs and carved in relief on sarcophagi and on innumerable smaller grave monuments. Drawing frequently upon ancient literature inscriptions as well as archaeological evidence, this book examines the visual and material evidence for dining through Roman antiquity. Richly illustrated, Roman Banqueting offers the fullest and varied picture of the role of the banquet in Roman life.
| Author | : David Walsh |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2018-11-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004383069 |
In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out of existence by Christians, Walsh demonstrates that the cult’s decline was a far more gradual process that resulted from a variety of factors. He also challenges the popular image of the cult as a monolithic entity, highlighting how by the 4th century Mithras had come to mean different things to different people in different places.
