Book Description
Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar
Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780472081240
Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar
Author : Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1108422659
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691058900
Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107494567
The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC – AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring theme is the role that he played in shaping their direction. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus captures the dynamics and richness of this era by examining important aspects of political and social history, religion, literature, and art and architecture. The sixteen essays, written by distinguished specialists from the United States and Europe, explore the multi-faceted character of the period and the interconnections between social, religious, political, literary, and artistic developments. Introducing the reader to many of the central issues of the Age of Augustus, the essays also break new ground and will stimulate further research and discussion.
Author : Tonio Hölscher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521665698
This book, first published in 2004, develops a theoretical concept for understanding the Roman art of images.
Author : David Freedberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 022625903X
"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."—Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book."—T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : A. Sutton
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Diane G. Favro
Publisher :
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture, Roman
ISBN :
Author : Werner Eck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1405151498
In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. Incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to power Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Roman empire Traces the history of the Roman revolution and Rome's transformation from a republic to an empire Includes a new chapter on legislation, further information on the monuments of the Augustan period, more maps and illustrations, and a stemma of Augustus' family Thorough, straightforward, and organized chronologically, this is an ideal resource for anyone approaching the subject for the first time
Author : Barbara Levick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1317867440
Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved. There was, she argues, less difference than might appear between the ambitious youth who overthrew Anthony and Cleopatra and the admired Emperor of later years. However seemingly benevolent his autocracy and substantial his achievements, Augustus’ overriding purpose was always to keep himself and his dynasty in power. Similar techniques were practised against surviving and fresh opponents, but with increasing skill and duplicity, and in the end the exhausted members of the political classes were content to accept their new ruler. This book charts the stages of Augustus’ rise, the evolution of his power and his methods of sustaining it, and finally the ways in which he used artists and literary men to glorify his image for his own time and times to come. This fascinating story of the realities of power in ancient Rome has inescapable contemporary resonance and will appeal equally to students of the Ancient World and to the general reader.