Late Roman Painting

by: Dorigo, W. Bettini, S.

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 Late Roman painting
Authors:Wladimiro Dorigo, Sergio Bettini, James Cleugh (Translator), John Warrington (Translator)

Contents:
Glossary of Greek, Latin and German terms
Introductory: Aspects of the ideological crisis of Roman society in the imperial age
Post-Hellenistic developments and liberation of the idiom of Roman pictorial art in the first and second centuries
The rural labours master of Cherchel and Severan painting in Africa
The problem of the Orient posed by Antioch, Dura Europos and Palmyra
Elements of the new idiom of Roman painting in the mid-third century
Christian catacombal painting at Rome in the second half of the third century
Late Tetrarchic painting and the Constantinian 'fine style' at Piazza Armerina villa
Roman and Christian painting by the Theodorean masters at Aquileia
Experiments and masters of North African mosaic in the fourth century
Masters of the Constantinian 'fine style' at Antioch and Trier
Constantinian expressionism from hypogean painting to the vaults of the Mauseoleum of Constantina
Expressionism and mannerism in funerary and ceremonial painting of the second half of the fourth century
Late mainfestations of Roman painting on the Germanic limes
The last Hellenistic experiments, from Egypt to Britain, and the two polarities of late Roman aesthetics
The first illuminated MSS and the Romano-Italian cultural area at the beginning of the fifth century
NeoPlatonic and NeoAlexandrian masters of Salonika and Constantinople, and the origins of Byzantine art
Conclusion: Plotinus and Augustine, the Late-Roman masters of medieval art

Subjects:
Mosaics, Early Christian
Mosaics, Roman
Mosaïque paléochrétienne
Mosaïque romaine
Mural painting and decoration, Early Christian
Mural painting and decoration, Roman
Peinture et décoration murales paléochrétiennes
Peinture et décoration murales romaines

xxviii, 345 pages: illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 29 cm

Late Roman Painting

by: Dorigo, W. Bettini, S.

• Praeger Publishers, New York, 1971

Price: 96,85 EURO

1 copy in stock