Why Ancient Objects Matter : Greek and Roman Art and Materiality from Antiquity to the Present

by: Cipolla , N. Anne F. LaGatta , Candace Weddle Livingston , Peter J.M. Schertz , Ambra Spinelli and Sarah K. Yeomans

Why Ancient Objects Matter
Greek and Roman Art and Materiality from Antiquity to the Present

Edited by: Nicholas Cipolla , Anne F. LaGatta , Candace Weddle Livingston , Peter J.M. Schertz , Ambra Spinelli and Sarah K. Yeomans

About this book
This collection of twenty-eight essays by emerging and established scholars presents work that deeply engages with the materiality and history of Greek and Roman artworks, artifacts, and monuments. Dedicated to Prof. John Pollini in honor of his contributions to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume reflects the broad range of his scholarship, from sculpture (especially portraiture) and its ancient contexts to material studies, iconographic analysis, and the complex ways that religious and political change both shape and are shaped by material culture. The contributions assembled in this volume highlight the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars construct interpretations of visual art based on a deep understanding of the ancient world, precise attention to detail and technique, and rigorous research into the historical contexts of objects, myths, literature, and iconography. Through their interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors offer new insights on artistic production, viewer reception, and social history, with an emphasis on the theme of "transformation" as objects, artworks, and ideas journey through time and from one culture to another.

Author / Editor information
Nicholas Cipolla, Anne F. LaGatta, Candace Weddle Livingston, Peter J.M. Schertz, USA; Ambra Spinelli, Italy; Sarah K. Yeomans, USA.

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Olga Palagia
Part I: Portraiture and Honorific Statuary
Look Up! The Roman Fornix as an Architectural Solution to Problems of Honorific Display

Diane Favro
An Amber Augustus at Olympia

Faya Causey
Tiberius in the Michael C. Carlos Museum: A Portrait Masterpiece

Anne F. LaGatta
The Priest?s Tale

Susan Walker
Intellectualizing Images? Private Male Portraits and the Second Sophistic in Rome

Eric Varner
Part II: Gods, Myths, and Ritual Practice
Peleus and the φθόνος θεῶν

Alan Shapiro
Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros and an Inscription at the Établissement of the Poseidoniastai of Berytos: Internationalism in the Cult Sanctuaries of Delos

Patricia A. Butz
The Judgement of Orestes and the Agamemnonidae: Some Observations on Transmission and Transformation in Roman Art

Dyfri Williams
Amazons at Herculaneum

Carol C. Mattusch
Spectacle and Society: Mythological Wall Paintings in the Tablinum of Houses at Pompeii and Herculaneum

Ambra Spinelli
The Mistress of the Beasts and Her Humpbacked Bulls: New Considerations About the Breeding of Sacrificial Animals and Roman Trade with India

Candace Weddle Livingston
Part III: The Rhetoric of Empire
Roman Power and Greek Sanctuaries: Two Studies

Andrew Stewart
The Mausoleum of Augustus and Etruscan Precedents for Roman Renewal

Peter J. Holliday
The Phasing and Design of the Calendrical Device (“Horologium”) of Augustus

Bernard Frischer
Aeneas and Romulus in the Forum of Augusta Emerita (Hispania)

Trinidad Nogales-Basarrate
New Evidence for the Forum Marsyas Statue Type

Peter Justin Moon Schertz
Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Griffins and the Phoenix in Visual Panegyric

Susan Wood
Part IV: Craft, Practice, and Production
Death and the Maiden: Meditations on a Kylix by the Brygos Painter

Owen Doonan
Hellenistic Gold and Silver Luxury Tableware as a Legacy of Roman Spoils of War

Beryl Barr-Sharrar
Metallurgical Innovations at the Time of Julius Caesar and Augustus

Alessandra Giumlia-Mair
Portrait of a Medical Practice: The Marcianopolis Instrumentarium

Sarah K. Yeomans
Part V: After Antiquity: Restoration, Forgery, Reception
The Capitoline Lion Attacking a Horse—An Icon of Feline-Equine Combat

Claire L. Lyons
Gnaios: In Search of an Artistic Personality

Kenneth Lapatin
“Time is Truly Forgetful”: The Black Stones in Early Modern Rome

Linda Nolan
Finding the Particular: On the Ancient Portrait in the History of Scholarship

Dietrich Boschung
A Late Republican Statue from Rome and Its Transformation

Hans Rupprecht Goette
A Putative Second Century CE Roman Sarcophagus in Los Angeles: The Dynamics of Establishing a Fake

Roger Von Dippe
Experts: The Story behind a Forged Roman Sarcophagus

Robert Cohon
List of Contributors

Index

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