Author : Idit Sagiv
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784918709
A comprehensive study of the depictions of animals and their significance on Greek and Roman gems. The work examines the associations between animal depictions and the type of gemstone and its believed qualities. The study also compares the representation of animals on gems to other, larger media, and analyses the differences.
Author : Ben van den Bercken
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Gems
ISBN : 9789088905063
This book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.
Author : Paweł Gołyźniak
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1789695406
This book studies small but highly captivating artworks from antiquity – engraved gemstones. These objects had multiple applications, and the images upon them captured snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They provide a unique perspective on the propaganda of Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus.
Author : Rosemary Barrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108583865
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004391444
A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures. As the chronological, temporal and geographic scope of the essays in the volume suggests, the study of the medieval seal—its manufacture, materiality, usage, iconography, inscription, and preservation—is a rich endeavour that demands collaboration across disciplines as well as between scholars working on material from different regions and periods. It is hoped that this collection will make the study of medieval seals more accessible and will stimulate students and scholars to employ and further develop these material and methodological approaches to seals. Contributors are Adrian Ailes, Elka Cwiertnia, Paul Dryburgh, Emir O. Filipovi, Oliver Harris, Philippa Hoskin, Ashley Jones, Andreas Lehnertz, John McEwan, Elizabeth A. New, Jonathan Shea, Caroline Simonet, Angelina A. Volkoff, and Marek L. Wójcik.
Author : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Cameos
ISBN :
Author : Gisela M. A. Richter
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788882653743
Author : Ivana Fiore
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1803273550
This volume gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. There is a focus on the necessity of an ‘interdisciplinary perspective’ to fully understand the fundamental role that dogs have played in our past.
Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1009459058
Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich cultural exchange experienced by Greeks across the Mediterranean. Hybrids, the author reveals, capture the anxiety of cross-cultural encounter, where similarity and incongruity were conjoined. Hybridity likewise expresses instability of identity. The ancient sea, that most changeable ancient domain, was viewed as home to monsters like Skylla; while on land the centaur might be hypersexual yet also hypercivilized, like Cheiron. Medusa may be destructive, yet also alluring. Wherever conventional values or behaviours are challenged, there the hybrid gives that threat a face. This absorbing work unveils a mercurial world of shifting categories that offer an alternative to conventional certainties. Transforming disorder into images of wonder, Greek hybrids – McInerney suggests – finally suggest other ways of being human.
Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 1588392228
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.
