Book Description
A comprehensive presentation of the ancient and diverse artifacts from the American Academy in Rome's collection.
Author : Larissa Bonfante
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472119893
A comprehensive presentation of the ancient and diverse artifacts from the American Academy in Rome's collection.
Author : Albert William Van Buren
Publisher :
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Classical antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Spencer Jerome
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Naples, Bay of (Italy)
ISBN :
Author : Katherine A. Geffcken
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780865164574
Helen Nagy, "Miniature Votive Altars in the Collection of the American Academy in Rome"; Gareth Schmeling, "Urbs Aeterna: Rome, a Monument of the Mind"; Susan Martin, "Transportation Issues in the City of Rome"; Anne H. Groton, "Id est quod suspicabar: Suspecting the Worst in Plautus"; Helen F. North, "Lacrimae Virginis Vestalis"; Michael C. J. Putnam, "Horace c. 3.23: Ritual and Art"; Herbert W. Benario, "Three Tacitean Women"
Author : John M. McManamon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1648431151
The saga of Caligula’s barges sunk in Lake Nemi south of Rome—how the huge vessels came to be there in the first place; why they became a cause célèbre for Mussolini’s Fascist regime; how they were, after multiple attempts, recovered from the lake bed; and why they were shortly thereafter destroyed—is, in the words of author John McManamon, a good story that is worth telling: “It has memorable characters, twists and turns in the plot, no lack of conflict and tension, and a dramatic ending where something clearly went wrong.” In From Caligula to the Nazis: The Nemi Ships in Diana’s Sanctuary, McManamon takes readers on an excursion through history to the fiery ending of the tale, a journey propelled by narrative energy and enhanced by the fruits of careful research. Related topics include Roman mythology and state religion, the erratic reign of the infamous Caligula, underwater archaeology as practiced during the Renaissance, the ideological exploitation of archaeology by Il Duce and his fascist followers, and a historical whodunit to ascertain the choices that led to the arson of the ship remains. McManamon covers every chapter in the 2,000-year history of the ships and does not ignore the mistaken interpretations that at times led subsequent researchers into blind alleys. In the end, From Caligula to the Nazis provides for both academic specialists and informed general readers the careful unwinding of a centuries-long mystery, replete with heroes, villains, gods, kings, and numerous ordinary folk swept up into the maelstrom.
Author : Robert Kahn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781892145048
City Secrets Rome . is not only slim, small and light but is also packed with information not easily available elsewhere.
Author : Kathleen Wren Christian
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300154214
In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displayed in private collections. Many of these collections, especially the Vatican Belvedere, are well known to art historians and archaeologists. Yet discussions of antiquities collecting in Rome too often begin with the Belvedere, that is, only after it was a widespread practice. In this important book, the author steps back to examine the "long" fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention. Kathleen Wren Christian examines shifts in the response of artists and writers to spectacular archaeological discoveries and the new role of collecting antiquities in the public life of Roman elites.
Author : T. Corey Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0190250992
"Sabina Augusta: an Imperial Journey synthesizes the textual and (massive) material evidence on the empress Sabina (born ca. 85--died ca. 137). The book traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations" --
Author : Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0823281035
Essays on the historical Greco-Roman influence on the evolving architectural landscape of New York City. During its rise from capital of an upstart nation to global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of New York’s art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of the city’s most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces. Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century’s Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity and to structure their public and private spaces. Specialists from a range of disciplines—archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history— focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City’s most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression. This examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space—be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic—and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.
Author : Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome)
Publisher : J Paul Getty Museum Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060995
Quatremére de Quincy, the most famous art critic at the end of the Enlightenment, published two sets of letters about the role of museums. He first implored them to return works of art to their original settings but later argued in favor of the museum as a place where artworks can be safely stored and made available for artists to study. Immensely contraversial and influential since they were written two centuries ago, Quatremére's texts sum up the most bewildering moment of the debate on museums: did the new institution inauguate the death of art, or bring it to its perfection? This volume offers the first English translation of the letters, as well as an extensive introduction that reveals their content, the reason for their intellectual success, and how they enlarge contemporary disputes about cultural property, national claims and universal beauty.