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The ancient art of transformation : case studies from Mediterranean contexts /

"The Ancient Art of Transformation: Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts examines instances of human transformation in the ancient and early Christian Mediterranean world by exploring the ways in which art impacts, aids, or provides evidence for physical, spiritual, personal, and social tra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gondek, Renee M. (Editor ), Sulosky Weaver, Carrie Lynn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2019.
Edición:Paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. On the threshold of old age: perceptions of the elderly in Athenian red-figure vase-painting / Nicholas A. Harokopos
  • 2. The transformation of the bride in Attic vase-painting / Victoria Sabetai
  • 3. Transitory nudity: life changes in Etruscan art / Bridget Sandhoff
  • 4. Cultural manoeuvring in the elite tombs of Ptolemaic Egypt / Sara E. Cole
  • 5. Octavian transformed as pharaoh and as Emperor Augustus / Erin A. Peters
  • 6. Ethnic identity, Social identity, and the aesthetics of sameness in the funerary monuments of Roman freedmen / Devon Stewart
  • 7. Greater in death: the transformative effect of convivial iconography on Roman cineraria / Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver
  • 8. A viewer walks into a tomb: transformation in the Cubiculum Leonis / Ethan Gannaway
  • 9. Protoplasts and prophets: the stucco reliefs in the Orthodox Baptistery in Ravenna / Rachel Danford.