Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste
Author : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art
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Author : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art
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Author : Cornelius Vermeule
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Hans Peter Laubscher
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Lea Stirling
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0472121820
For centuries, statuary décor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape. Further, changing religious practices cast pagan sculpture in a threatening light. Statuary production ceased, and extant statuary was either harvested for use in construction or abandoned in place. The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture is the first volume to approach systematically the antique destruction and reuse of statuary, investigating key responses to statuary across most regions of the Roman world. The volume opens with a discussion of the complexity of the archaeological record and a preliminary chronology of the fate of statues across both the eastern and western imperial landscape. Contributors to the volume address questions of definition, identification, and interpretation for particular treatments of statuary, including metal statuary and the systematic reuse of villa materials. They consider factors such as earthquake damage, late antique views on civic versus “private” uses of art, urban construction, and deeper causes underlying the end of the statuary habit, including a new explanation for the decline of imperial portraiture. The themes explored resonate with contemporary concerns related to urban decline, as evident in post-industrial cities, and the destruction of cultural heritage, such as in the Middle East.
Author : Edmund von Mach
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Page : 602 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Sculpture
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Author : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Sculpture, American
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Author : Anna Anguissola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108307922
Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.
Author : Elaine K. Gazda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472111893
Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?
Author : Miranda Marvin
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Sculpture, Greek
ISBN : 9780892368068
Since the Renaissance, it has been generally accepted that almost all Roman sculptures depicting ideal figures were copies of Greek originals. This text traces the origin of this idea to the academic belief in the mythical perfection of now-lost Greek art.
Author : Hans Peter Laubscher
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1981
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