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Author | : Janet Huskinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780198140863 |
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This is the first major study of the themes used in the decoration of sarcophagi made for children in Rome and Ostia from the late first to early fourth century AD. Using the subject categories adopted by other recent books on Roman Sarcophagi, Huskinson catalogs examples of each type, and discusses how these fit into the general pattern. Huskinson also discerns the differing themes that resulted from pagan and Christian attitudes towards children and beliefs about life and death.
Author | : Janet Huskinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Janet Huskinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199203245 |
Download Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, which are the largest group of decorated marble sarcophagi to survive in the city of Rome. Characterized by panels of carved fluting - hence the description 'strigillated', after the curved strigil used by Roman bathers to scrape off oil - and limited figure scenes, they were produced from the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, and thus cover a critical period in Rome, from empire to early Christianity. Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi focuses on their rich potential as an historical source for exploring the social and cultural life of the city in the later empire. The first part of the volume examines aspects of their manufacture, use, and viewing, emphasizing distinctive features. The second part looks at the figured representations carved on the sarcophagi, and at their social significance and creativity, concentrating on how their various arrangements allowed viewers to develop their own interpretations. The subjects represented by the figures and the flexibility with which they might be read, provide invaluable insights into how Romans thought about life and death during these changing times. The final part of the volume surveys how later societies responded to Roman strigillated sarcophagi. From as early as the fifth century AD their distinctive decoration and allusions to the Roman past made them especially attractive for reuse in particular contemporary contexts, notably for elite burials and the decoration of prominent buildings. The motif of curved fluting was also adopted and adapted: it decorated neo-classical memorials to Captain Cook, Napoleon's sister-in-law Christine Boyer, and Penelope Boothby, and its use continues into this century, well over one and a half millennia since it first decorated Roman sarcophagi.
Author | : Ada Cohen |
Publisher | : ASCSA |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0876615418 |
Download Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.
Author | : Beryl Rawson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2003-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191514233 |
Download Children and Childhood in Roman Italy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Concepts of childhood and the treatment of children are often used as a barometer of society's humanity, values, and priorities. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy argues that in Roman society children were, in principle and often in practice, welcome, valued and visible. There is no evidence directly from children themselves, but we can reconstruct attitudes to them, and their own experiences, from a wide variety of material - art and architecture, artefacts, funerary dedications, Roman law, literature, and public and private ritual. There are distinctively Roman aspects to the treatment of children and to children's experiences. Education at many levels was important. The commemoration of children who died young has no parallel, in earlier or later societies, before the twentieth century. This study builds on the dynamic work on the Roman family that has been developing in recent decades. Its focus on the period between the first century BCE and the early third century CE provides a context for new work being done on early Christian societies, especially in Rome.
Author | : Barry Ferst Ph.D. |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 1984544977 |
Download Stone Sarcophagi of the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over fourteen expeditions I drove a hundred thousand miles across four continents searching out churches, cathedrals, baptistries, catacombs, archeological sites, art galleries, antiquities museums, necropoleis, classical gardens, castles, fortresses, palaces, and private homes--any place that had a Roman Empire era stone sarcophagus. Beside the work of locating and cataloguing sarcophagi, the project I set for myself twenty years ago, I composed explanatory material to say how I did my work, noted what was to be found sculpted on sarcophagi, and developed a schema for organizing the various visual characteristics found on sarcophagi. On the model of outsider art, my work is outsider scholarshipyet here is documentation of 1,932 presently existing Roman Empire sarcophagi.
Author | : Anna Marguerite McCann |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Zanker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2012-12-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199228698 |
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"Provides a comprehensive introduction to this important genre, exploring such subjects as the role of the mythological images in everyday life of the time, the messages they convey about the Romans' view of themselves, and the reception of the sarcophagi in later European art and art history."--Publisher's website
Author | : Paul Zanker |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-12-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199228698 |
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A comprehensive introduction to Roman marble sarcophagi and the mythological reliefs which decorated them. The volume provides fascinating insight into the lives and attitudes of Romans during the 2nd to early 4th centuries CE, while numerous photographs enable the sarcophagi themselves to be appreciated as wonderful art objects in their own right.
Author | : Jaś Elsner |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 3110202131 |
Download Life, Death and Representation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce freshinsights into a subject which has received increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis.