A Companion to Roman Art.

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Author / Creator: Borg, Barbara E.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Chicester : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Series:Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Roman? -- Art? -- Companion? -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- PART I: Methods and Approaches -- CHAPTER 1: Defining Roman Art -- The Discovery of Roman Art in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Continuing Problems of Definition -- Modern Difficulties in Approaching the Art of the Roman Period -- Some Proposals for Redefining Roman Art for Modern Audiences -- A New Model for Understanding Roman Art -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2: Roman Historical Representations -- History of Scholarship and Current Perspectives -- Historical Memory and Political Practice -- Historical Reality versus Political Ideology -- History and Ritual -- The Pictorial Language: Realism versus Allegory and Symbol -- Rome and the Empire -- Systems of Ideology -- Visibility and Cultural Practice -- Image, Reality, and Meaning -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3: Methodological Approaches to the Dating and Identification of Roman Portraits -- Researching Roman Portraits as a Scholarly Task -- The First Step: Distinguishing Portraits of Emperors from Private Portraits -- The Most Useful Aid in Identifying Portraits of Roman Emperors: Portraits on Coins -- Different Portraits of One Emperor: The Discovery of Portrait Types -- Emperor Portraits Are Not Unique Creations, But Copies of Official Portrait Types -- The Creation and Use of Portrait Types -- Identifying Emperors' Portrait Types That Do Not Appear on Coins -- Distinguishing Emperors' Portrait Types from Private Portraits That Are Also Based on Portrait Types -- Other Methods of Identifying Portraits of Emperors: Inscriptions, Archaeological Contexts, and Historical Reliefs -- Dating Portrait Types of Emperors. 
505 8 |a Do Portrait Types of Emperors Always Carry a Specific Message? -- Naming Portrait Types -- Systematic, Gradual Modification of the Portrait Types of Young Emperors -- How Can Copies of an Emperor's Portrait Type Be Identified? Copy Review -- Why Do Copies of One Portrait Type Often Differ So Much? The Methods of the Copying Workshops -- Special Problems in Copy Review I: Emperors' Portraits in the Provinces -- Special Problems in Copy Review II: Reworked Portraits of Emperors -- Special Problems in Copy Review III: Combination of Portrait Types (Bildnis-Klitterungen) -- Dating Copies of Imperial Portrait Types -- Why Do Some Private Portraits Bear Such a Resemblance to the Portraits of Emperors? Assimilated Portraiture (Bildnisangleichung) and Period Faces (Zeitgesicht) -- Is It Always the Emperors Who Influence Their Citizens? -- Did All Roman Citizens Want to Resemble the Emperors and Empresses in Their Portraits? The Phenomenon of Non-assimilation -- Dating Private Portraits: Portrait Assimilation and Style -- Other Possibilities for Dating Private Portraits: Bust Types and Plastic Rendering of the Eyes -- Can Roman Portraits Be Dated Based on a General Stylistic Development? -- Future Tasks -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4: Roman Art and Gender Studies -- Introduction -- Gender as Women. Women into Gender -- Gender and Sexuality -- A Few Remarks on Representation -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- PART II: The Beginnings and End of Roman Art -- CHAPTER 5: Republican Rome and Italic Art -- Italy and Rome in the Republican Period (sixth to first centuries BCE) -- Central Italy and Rome in the Sixth and Fifth centuries and the "Masters" of Veii -- Arts and Crafts in Rome and Central Italy in the Fourth and Third Centuries -- The Sack of Syracuse (212) and the Age of Conquest: Rome and Greece in the Second Century. 
505 8 |a GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6: Adapting Greek Art -- Initial Encounters: Greeks and Romans in the Second Century BCE -- From Republic to Principate: Greek Art in the New Imperial System -- The Hadrianic-Antonine Era: Adapting Greek Art in the Roman Provinces -- Conclusions -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7: The Art of Late Antiquity -- Art between Conservation and Change -- Trends in the Visual Habitus and Transformations of saeculum -- Religious Life: Paideia and Transformations of Habitus -- Images on Command: Patterns of Authority and Rhetoric in Christian Imagery -- Conclusion: Images in the New Centers of Power -- GUIDE FOR FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- PART III: Producing and Commissioning Roman Art -- CHAPTER 8: Technique and Message in Roman Art -- Manifest Cost of Materials -- Magical and Medicinal Properties -- Geographical Associations: Origin and Empire -- Approximating Other Media -- Mimesis versus Metonymy -- Historical Associations: Evoking Tradition -- Contrasts in Fabric: Bichrome Statuary -- Contrasts in Tooling: Chisel and Drill -- Scope for Future Research -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9: Roman Art and the Artist -- A Crisis of Identity? -- A Portrait of the Artist? -- Logistics and Practicalities -- What's in a Name? -- Conclusion: Fake-it Fecits? -- Acknowledgments -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: Roman Art and the State -- The Republican Background -- The Augustan Principate -- Imperial Imagery under the Julio-Claudians -- Continuity and Legacy -- The Study of Antiquity Today -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11: "Arte Plebea" and Non-elite Roman Art -- Style and Roman Art -- A History of Roman Art History -- Arte Plebea in Roman Art -- Arte Plebea and Trimalchio -- Volkstümliche Kunst and Painting. 
505 8 |a Future Directions -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: Genres -- CHAPTER 12: Roman Portraits -- Roman Portraiture: Fear of Oblivion and Anonymity? -- Roman Portraiture: Likeness or Manipulation? -- Portrait Styles, Materials, and Chronology -- Statuary Formats, Body Types, and Clothing: Social Markers, Role Models, or Fashion? -- Portraits in Context -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13: Wall Painting -- Roman Painting: Up against the Wall -- Scholarship on Roman Wall Painting -- Hard Facts, Soft Skills, and the Spatial Framework -- Outside In: The First Style -- A World Beyond: The Second Style -- Consolidating the Virtual in the Real: The Third Style -- Immersion, Not Emulation: The Fourth Style -- Roman Painting: Toward a Holistic Viewing -- GUIDE FOR FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14: Mosaics -- The Beginnings -- Pavements in Roman Italy -- Pavements in the Eastern Provinces -- Pavements in Roman Africa -- Pavements in the Northern and Western Provinces -- Mosaics in Context -- Wall and Vault Mosaics -- Epilogue: What Next? -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15: Roman Sarcophagi -- Kinds of Interpretations -- The Malleability of the Sarcophagus Genre -- Forms of Visual Narrative -- The Transformative Power of the Funerary Context -- Images of "Belonging" and Metaphors of Society -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16: Decorative Art -- Tables -- Puteals, Fountain Bowls, Decorative Fountains -- Candelabra, Decorative Lamps -- Decorative Vessels -- Ornamental Reliefs, Masks, Oscilla -- Ornamental Altars and Tripod Bases -- Research Perspectives -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17: Luxury Arts -- The Evidence -- Historiography -- Artists -- Iconography, Use, and Display -- Hierarchies of Value -- Gem Cutting -- Intaglios and Cameos -- Silver Plate. 
505 8 |a Statues of Precious Materials -- Luxury Furniture -- Amber -- Jewelry -- Gold Glass -- Conclusions -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18: Roman Architecture as Art? -- Setting, Staging, Shaping Space -- Mass and Volume -- Material and Texture -- Geometry and Design -- Theater and Rhetoric -- Mass and Volume -- Epilogue -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- PART V: Contexts -- CHAPTER 19: Roman Art and "Private Space"Art in Roman Town Houses -- The House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto -- The House of the Bound Animals, Thuburbo Maius, Tunisia -- Conclusions -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20: Art in the Roman Villa -- Life in the Roman Villa: Literary Accounts -- Art in the Roman Villa: Archaeological Evidence -- Nature and Culture -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21: The Decoration of Private Space in the Later Roman Empire -- A Field of Research Is Discovered -- How Does Decoration Function in the Roman House? -- Changing Perspectives: Discovering a New Perception of Space -- Opportunities and Limitations: Increasing Decorative Splendor -- The Discourse Grows More Complex: A New Thematic Spectrum in the Pictorial World -- Decoration in the Late Imperial House: Some Perspectives for the Future -- Acknowledgments -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22: Roman Art and DeathThe Decoration of Roman Tombs -- Anything but Merely Sepulchral -- Long Underestimated: Impacts of the History of Scholarship -- The Hidden Locations of Immovable Tomb Decoration -- Chronology, Themes, Trends, and Preferences -- Tomb Decoration in Metropolitan Rome -- Purely Sepulchral Symbols? -- The Social Status of Tomb Patrons -- What Is New? Tomb Decoration Revisited -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 23: Catacombs and the Beginnings of Christian Tomb Decoration -- The Research so Far. 
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