The Cult Images of Imperial Rome
Author | : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule |
Publisher | : Bretschneider Giorgio |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule |
Publisher | : Bretschneider Giorgio |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jorge Tomás García |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-04-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000574210 |
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047441656 |
Based on the visual and textual evidence, this volume concentrates on the artistic, intellectual, religious, and socio-political importance of divine images as media of communication in the polytheistic cosmos of ancient Greece and Rome.
Author | : Philip Kiernan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Idols and images |
ISBN | : 9781108720090 |
"In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more important to ritual than other images such as votive offerings and decorative sculpture. These idols were seen by many to be divine and possessed of agency. They were, thus, the primary focus of worship. Aided by cross-cultural comparative material, Kirenan's study brings a biographical approach to explore the "lives" of idols and cult images - how they were created, housed in temples, used and worshipped, and eventually destroyed or buried. He also shows how the status of cult images could change, how new idols and other cult images were being continuously created, and how, in each phase of their lives, we find evidence for the significant power of idols"--
Author | : Philip Kiernan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108487343 |
A biography of how cult images functioned in Roman temples. It explores their creation, use, and eventual destruction.
Author | : S. R. F. Price |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521312684 |
Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god.
Author | : Revd Allen Brent |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004313125 |
Recent studies have re-assessed Emperor worship as a genuinely religious response to the metaphysics of social order. Brent argues that Augustus' revolution represented a genuinely religious reformation of Republican religion that had failed in its metaphysical objectives. Against this backcloth, Luke, John the Seer, Clement, Ignatius and the Apologists refashioned Christian theology as an alternative answer to that metaphysical failure. Callistus and Pseudo-Hippolytus gave different responses to Severan images of imperial power. The early, Monarchian theology of the Trinity was thus to become a reflection of imperial culture and its justification that was later to be articulated both in Neo-Platonism, and in Cyprian's view of episcopal Order. Contra-cultural theory is employed as a sociological model to examine the interaction between developing Pagan and Christian social order.
Author | : Jaś Elsner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192842015 |
Western culture saw some of the most significant and innovative developments take place during the passage from antiquity to the middle ages. This stimulating new book investigates the role of the visual arts as both reflections and agents of those changes. It tackles two inter-related periodsof internal transformation within the Roman Empire: the phenomenon known as the 'Second Sophistic' (c. ad 100300)two centuries of self-conscious and enthusiastic hellenism, and the era of late antiquity (c. ad 250450) when the empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylisticchange, Jas Elsner presents a fresh and challenging account of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. 'a highly individual work . . . wonderful visual and comparative analysis . . . I can think of no other general book on Roman art that deals so elegantly and informatively with the theme of visuality and visual desire.' Professor Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College, New York 'exciting and original . . . a vibrant impression of creative energy and innovation held in constant tension by the persistence of more traditional motifs and techniques. Elsner constantly surprises and intrigues the reader by approaching familiar material in new ways.' Professor Averil Cameron,Keble College, Oxford
Author | : Amy Russell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108835120 |
Explores how artists and patrons at all social levels helped form and evolve the visual language of the Roman Empire.
Author | : Philippa Adrych |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0198792530 |
This work presents six case-studies of objects from different periods and regions of antiquity that are labelled by variations of the name Mithra, including the Roman Mithras, Persian Mihr, and Bactrian Miiro. Each chapter places each object in its original context, before questioning its role in religious ritual, tradition, and belief