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Roman Art

by: Strong, D.

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Category: Classical Archaeology
Code: 3942
ISBN-13: 9780300052930 / 978-0-300-05293-0
ISBN-10: 0300052936 / 0-300-05293-6
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Publication Place: New Haven and London
Binding: Paper
Pages: 406
Book Condition: Very good
Comments: First Published 1976

 Traces the development of Roman art from its beginnings to the end of the 4th century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman world, which extended from Britain to Mesopotamia and from the Rhine and Danube to North Africa.

Contents:
1. The beginnings. 2. The mid and late republic. Early coinage
Early terracottas and bronzes
The influence of Greek art
Roman art in the second and early first centuries B.C
Early portraits and reliefs. 3. Decorative arts, artists, and patrons in the late republic. Interior decoration
Greek artists and Roman patrons
Republican wall paintings. 4. Transition to the empire and Augustus. Art and the dynasts
Late republican relief sculpture
The ara pacis augustae
Augustan portraiture
Other works of Augustan commemorative art
Augustan metalwork, gems, paintings, and mosaics. 5. The Julio-Claudians. Relief sculpture
Portraiture
Provincial art
Sperlonga and villa decoration
The golden house of Nero
Funerary art. 6. The Flavians. Relief sculpture
Interior decoration and portraiture
Funerary art. 7. Trajan. Trajan's forum, column, and 'great frieze'
The arch at Benevento and other public monuments
Portraiture
Art in the provinces
Sarcophagi. 8. Hadrian. Portraiture and imperial taste
Relief sculpture
Interior decoration
Sarcophagi. 9. The Antonines. The base of Antoninus pius' column
Sarcophagi
Portraiture
Aurelian relief panels
The column of Marcus Aurelius
Art in the provinces. 10. The Severans. Relife sculpture in Rome and North Africa
Portraiture
Sarophagi
Interior decoration
Early Christian painting
Mosaics in Italy and the provinces
Art in the provinces
Art at Dura Europos. 11. The third century. Portraiture
Villa decoration
Coin types
The classical tradition
Sarcophagi
Christian and Jewish art. 12. The Tetrarchs. The imperial image
Public moments
Art in the provinces
Piazza Armerina
Porphyry sculpture
S. Constanza. 13. Constantine the great. The arch of Constantine
The imperial image
Painting and mosaics
Christian sarcophagi
Catacomb painting
Constantinople. 14. The fourth century after Constantine the great. Classicism
Luxury crafts
Imperial portraiture
Christian sarcophagi
New Rome
Private portraiture
Mosaics

Series:
Pelican history of art

406 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

 

 
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Roman Art

by: Strong, D.

  • ISBN-13: 9780300052930 / 978-0-300-05293-0
  • ISBN-03: 0300052936 / 0-300-05293-6
  • Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock