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Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Author : Amalie Skovmøller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110585529
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture written by Amalie Skovmøller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 represents the first full-length academic monograph which explores the original polychromy of Roman white marble portraiture. It presents results from scientific analysis of portraits in statuary and bust formats dating to the first three centuries CE. The book also explores the cultural and social significance of colours in their original contexts, and how the immaterial affects of the polychrome, three-dimensional images can be integrated into the traditional research into ancient portraiture, which has tended to place overwhelming emphasis on iconography, typology and biography. By doing so the ancient sculpted marble form, as we know it, will be exposed and confronted, and the impact of manipulated material effects, that were meant to evoke a broad range of multisensory experiences, will be emphasized. The book puts forth a new way of analysis to be tested and developed in the future.

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Author : Amalie Skovmøller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110583801
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture written by Amalie Skovmøller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 represents the first full-length academic monograph which explores the original polychromy of Roman white marble portraiture. It presents results from scientific analysis of portraits in statuary and bust formats dating to the first three centuries CE. The book also explores the cultural and social significance of colours in their original contexts, and how the immaterial affects of the polychrome, three-dimensional images can be integrated into the traditional research into ancient portraiture, which has tended to place overwhelming emphasis on iconography, typology and biography. By doing so the ancient sculpted marble form, as we know it, will be exposed and confronted, and the impact of manipulated material effects, that were meant to evoke a broad range of multisensory experiences, will be emphasized. The book puts forth a new way of analysis to be tested and developed in the future.

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Author : Amalie Skovmøller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110563665
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture written by Amalie Skovmøller and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 represents the first full-length academic monograph which explores the original polychromy of Roman white marble portraiture. It presents results from scientific analysis of portraits in statuary and bust formats dating to the first three centuries CE. The book also explores the cultural and social significance of colours in their original contexts, and how the immaterial affects of the polychrome, three-dimensional images can be integrated into the traditional research into ancient portraiture, which has tended to place overwhelming emphasis on iconography, typology and biography. By doing so the ancient sculpted marble form, as we know it, will be exposed and confronted, and the impact of manipulated material effects, that were meant to evoke a broad range of multisensory experiences, will be emphasized. The book puts forth a new way of analysis to be tested and developed in the future.

Roman Portraits in Context

Author : Jane Fejfer
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Roman Portraits in Context written by Jane Fejfer and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other monumental art form was so widely disseminated throughout the Roman Empire as the portrait statue, and its impact on city life was crucial. By combining a wide socio-historical perspective with a close reading of individual images, their se

The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Author : Heather Hunter-Crawley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315519836
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Book Synopsis The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance by : Heather Hunter-Crawley

Download or read book The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance written by Heather Hunter-Crawley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. What does it mean to practise art history after the material and sensory turns? What is an image, if not a purely visual phenomenon, and how does it prompt non-visual sensory experiences? The multi-sensoriality of the image was a less challenging concept before the ocularcentric modern age, and so this volume brings together a global array of scholars from multiple disciplines to ask these questions of imagery in premodern or non-western contexts, ranging from Minoan palace frescoes, to Roman statues, early church sermons, tombs of Byzantine saints, museum displays of Islamic artefacts of scent, medieval depictions of the voice, and Stuart court masques. Each chapter presents a means of appreciating images beyond the visual, demonstrating the new information and understanding that consequently can be gleaned from their material. As a collection, these chapters offer the student and scholar of art history and visual culture an array of exciting new approaches that can be applied to appreciate the multi-sensoriality of images in any context, as well as prompts for reflection on future directions in the study of imagery. The Multi-Sensory Image thus illustrates that it is not only possible to explore the non-visual impact of images, but imperative.

New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004417362
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts address art historical, historical, cultural and museological issues raised by one of two surviving intact statues of the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 C.E.). Contributions focus on the creation of a 3D-digital model of the statue and the search for traces of its original polychromy; the history of the statue from its creation to the present, including its rediscovery at a Julio-Claudian sanctuary at Bovillae; aspects of Caligula’s literary and visual portrayal in antiquity and modern historiography (including questions concerning the destruction of his portraits and the implications of Jewish sources for the study of Caligula); and the emperor’s image in popular culture.

Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia

Author : Alexander Nagel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009361341
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia by : Alexander Nagel

Download or read book Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia written by Alexander Nagel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he explores the topic within the context of the modern historiography of Achaemenid art and the scientific investigation of a range of works and monuments in Iran and in museums around the world.

Seeing Color in Classical Art

Author : Jennifer M. S. Stager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009034669
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Seeing Color in Classical Art by : Jennifer M. S. Stager

Download or read book Seeing Color in Classical Art written by Jennifer M. S. Stager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remains of ancient Mediterranean art and architecture that have survived over the centuries present the modern viewer with images of white, the color of the stone often used for sculpture. Antiquarian debates and recent scholarship, however, have challenged this aspect of ancient sculpture. There is now a consensus that sculpture produced in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as art objects in other media, were, in fact, polychromatic. Color has consequently become one of the most important issues in the study of classical art. Jennifer Stager's landmark book makes a vital contribution to this discussion. Analyzing the dyes, pigments, stones, earth, and metals found in ancient art works, along with the language that writers in antiquity used to describe color, she examines the traces of color in a variety of media. Stager also discusses the significance of a reception history that has emphasized whiteness, revealing how ancient artistic practice and ancient philosophies of color significantly influenced one another.

Roman Women’s Dress

Author : Jan Radicke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110711656
Total Pages : 1045 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Women’s Dress by : Jan Radicke

Download or read book Roman Women’s Dress written by Jan Radicke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 1045 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from the beginnings of the Republic until the end of the 2nd century AD. There is, however, a certain surplus as to its contents because many Latin texts also talk about mythical Greek dress and the largely fictional early Roman dress. Altogether, large parts of the history of Roman dress are only known to us through what scholars thought about it in Classical and Late Antiquity. For this reason, this book is not only about real female Roman dress, but also about the ancient pseudo-discourse on early female Roman dress, which has been taken too seriously by modern scholarship. This pseudo-discourse has been mixed together with real facts to produce an ahistorical fabric. It therefore appeared necessary to break with this old tradition and to take a completely new path. The detailed analysis of many texts on female Roman dress is the basis of this new handbook meant for philologists, historians, and archaeologists alike.

Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography

Author : Susanna Harris
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257220
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography written by Susanna Harris and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also present in furnishings and through the processes of textile production. The challenge for anyone analysing ancient iconography is determining how we interpret what we see. As preserved textiles rarely survive in comparable forms, we must consider the extent to which representations of textiles reflect reality, and critically evaluate the sources. Images are not simple replicas or photographs of reality. Instead, iconography draws on select elements from the surrounding world that were recognisable to the ancient audience, and reveal the perceptions, ideologies, and ideas of the society in which they were produced. Through examining the durable evidence, this anthology reveals the ephemeral world of textiles and their integral role in the daily life, cult and economy of the ancient Mediterranean.

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Author : Sarah F. Derbew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495281
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity written by Sarah F. Derbew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and brilliant new treatment of blackness in ancient Greek literature and visual culture as well as modern reception.

The Frame in Classical Art

Author : Verity Platt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316943275
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book The Frame in Classical Art written by Verity Platt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus

Author : Anna M. V. Bowden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978710186
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus written by Anna M. V. Bowden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to bring the (im)practicalities of John’s command for withdrawal from cultural participation in 18:4 to the forefront of scholarly discourse, this book reconstructs the marble economy of ancient Ephesus and proceeds to read Revelation by foregrounding the daily lives of its marble-workers. This book argues that Ephesus was a major center of the marble economy in the Roman world and that the infrastructure that went into creating, building, and sustaining such an enterprise generated the need for a large workforce. Anna M. V. Bowden further demonstrates that the majority of marble-workers endured poor working conditions and struggled on a daily basis to ensure subsistence. Finally, Bowden explores the ways marble-workers participated in empire “through the work of their hands” (9:20) and questions John’s characterization of marble-workers as idolaters, sorcerers, murderers, fornicators, and thieves. Bowden concludes that the praxis Revelation requires from its audience of complete withdrawal is pragmatically not sustainable and is ultimately a manifesto leaving marble-workers jobless, hungry, and with a heightened risk for malnutrition, disease, injury, and even death.

Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul

Author : George Boys-Stones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199291535
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul written by George Boys-Stones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemon of Laodicea's "Physiognomy" is a manual on how to tell character from appearance, thus enabling its readers to choose friends and avoid enemies on sight. The present volume is the work of a team of leading Classicists and Arabists. The main surviving versions in Greek and Latin are translated into English for the first time.

A History of the Ancient World

Author : George Stephen Goodspeed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Ancient World written by George Stephen Goodspeed and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Color of Life

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892369188
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Life written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a persistent tradition of enlivening sculptures with color. This book presents five essays on polychromy in classical Greek through contemporary sculpture, along with discussions of over 40 extraordinary polychrome sculptures.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture

Author : Elise A Friedland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199921830
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture written by Elise A Friedland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, society, and history. Indeed, the field of Roman sculptural studies encompasses not only the full chronological range of the Roman world but also its expansive geography, and a variety of artistic media, formats, sizes, and functions. Exciting new theories, methods, and approaches have transformed the specialized literature on the subject in recent decades. Rather than creating another chronological catalogue of representative examples from various periods, genres, and settings, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture synthesizes current best practices for studying this central medium of Roman art, situating it within the larger fields of Art History, Classical Archaeology, and Roman Studies. This comprehensive volume fills the gap between introductory textbooks and highly focused professional literature. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture conveniently presents new technical, scientific, literary, and theoretical approaches to the study of Roman sculpture in one reference volume while simultaneously complementing textbooks and other publications that present well-known works in the corpus. The contributors to this volume address metropolitan and provincial material from the early republican period through late antiquity in an engaging and fresh style. Authoritative, innovative, and up-to-date, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture will remain an invaluable resource for years to come.