Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9783110585520
ISBN-13 : 3110585529
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture by : Amalie Skovmøller

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

Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : 9783110583809
ISBN-13 : 3110583801
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Facing the Colours of Roman Portraiture by : Amalie Skovmøller

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

Roman Portraits in Context
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Publisher : de Gruyter
Total Pages : 612
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015079330547
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Roman Portraits in Context by : Jane Fejfer

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

The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781315519838
ISBN-13 : 1315519836
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

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

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.

Ancient Faces

Ancient Faces
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0415927455
ISBN-13 : 9780415927451
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Faces by : Susan Walker

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, February-May 2000, the first major showing in North America of stunning painted mummy portraits that represent a confluence of ancient Egyptian and Roman cultures and the Graeco-Roman painting tradition. The catalog concentrates closely on the paintings, their artistry, and their social context and meaning. Seven contributed essays set the context. The 122 color and 23 bandw illustrations are fully discussed and described by editor Walker, who is affiliated with the British Museum. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Roman Women’s Dress

Roman Women’s Dress
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 1045
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ISBN-10 : 9783110711653
ISBN-13 : 3110711656
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Roman Women’s Dress by : Jan Radicke

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.

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9781606066539
ISBN-13 : 1606066536
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt by : Marie Svoboda

This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus

Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781978710184
ISBN-13 : 1978710186
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus by : Anna M. V. Bowden

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.

Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV)

Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV)
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015014846946
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV) by : William Matthew Flinders Petrie

An account of the portraits from the Roman cemetery at Hawara, and brief details of discoveries at Memphis.

Roman Art

Roman Art
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106019991428
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Roman Art by : Nancy Lorraine Thompson

A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.