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The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford History of Art ; 201802ENGGPS3Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2018Edition: 2th edDescription: 314pISBN:
  • 9780198768630
DDC classification:
  • W59 EL770
Partial contents:
1. The Scope of this book : Redefining the Present by rewriting the past ..............1 Continuity and Change .........8 The Role of the Visual in Roman Culture .........10 The Changing nature of Roman art and the art - Historical problem of Style ..........13 1. Images and power .......23 A visual Culture ............25 Art in state Ceremonial ..........26 Art in Civic Life .........32 Art inside the Roman House ..............40 Change and Continuity .......44 3. Art and imperial Power .........49 The Animal image and the Symbolic Unity of the Empire .......50 Imperial Self-Promotion ..........54 II. Images and Society 4. art and Social Life ...........85 Representing Status ..........86 The Elite ........89 The accountrements of Domestic Life: rituals of Dining .......94 5. Centre and Periphery ........107 Local Identity and Empire - wide Acculturation : The problems of Romanization ......109 Late Antiquity : The periphery` Ascendancy at the Expense of the Centre .......117 The Visual Dynamics of Romanization .........124 6. Art and Death .......135 Elevating the Dead : Identity, Narrative, and Representation .....137 Myth and the Adaptation of Culture in the Sculptors workshops ......141 III. Images and Transformation .........155 7. Art and the past : Antiquarian Eclecticism ..........157 Classicism in the second sophistic ..........157 Classicism in the late empire ............173 8. Art and Religion .........185 An Epoch of Transformation .......185 Mystery cults and new Religions : Art and the Construction of Identity ..........191 Differentiation and Syncretism : Cultic creations of Meaning ..........196 Christian Triumph .....205 An Official Religion and its public Presence .......209 9. The Eurasian Context .........221 An Interconnected World ..............222 Appropriations of Images ..........225 An Interconnected discourse of Visual Culture .........231 IV. EPilogue ...........243 10. Art and Culture : Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art .............245
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includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Scope of this book : Redefining the Present by rewriting the past ..............1 Continuity and Change .........8 The Role of the Visual in Roman Culture .........10 The Changing nature of Roman art and the art - Historical problem of Style ..........13 1. Images and power .......23 A visual Culture ............25 Art in state Ceremonial ..........26 Art in Civic Life .........32 Art inside the Roman House ..............40 Change and Continuity .......44 3. Art and imperial Power .........49 The Animal image and the Symbolic Unity of the Empire .......50 Imperial Self-Promotion ..........54 II. Images and Society 4. art and Social Life ...........85 Representing Status ..........86 The Elite ........89 The accountrements of Domestic Life: rituals of Dining .......94 5. Centre and Periphery ........107 Local Identity and Empire - wide Acculturation : The problems of Romanization ......109 Late Antiquity : The periphery` Ascendancy at the Expense of the Centre .......117 The Visual Dynamics of Romanization .........124 6. Art and Death .......135 Elevating the Dead : Identity, Narrative, and Representation .....137 Myth and the Adaptation of Culture in the Sculptors workshops ......141 III. Images and Transformation .........155 7. Art and the past : Antiquarian Eclecticism ..........157 Classicism in the second sophistic ..........157 Classicism in the late empire ............173 8. Art and Religion .........185 An Epoch of Transformation .......185 Mystery cults and new Religions : Art and the Construction of Identity ..........191 Differentiation and Syncretism : Cultic creations of Meaning ..........196 Christian Triumph .....205 An Official Religion and its public Presence .......209 9. The Eurasian Context .........221 An Interconnected World ..............222 Appropriations of Images ..........225 An Interconnected discourse of Visual Culture .........231 IV. EPilogue ...........243 10. Art and Culture : Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art .............245

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