Using images in late antiquity /

Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period's visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Birk, Stine (Editor ), Kristensen, Troels Myrup (Editor ), Poulsen, Birte (Editor ), Liverani, Paolo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Temas:
Art and society > Mediterranean Region.
Visual communication > Mediterranean Region.
Art, Classical > Mediterranean Region.
Art, Medieval > Mediterranean Region.
ART > History > General.
HISTORY / General
Art and society.
Art, Classical.
Art, Medieval.
Visual communication.
Mediterranean Region.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; List of plates; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Chi parla a chi? Epigrafia monumentale e immagine pubblica in epoca tardoantica; Chapter 3: Using Images for Self-Representation on Roman Sarcophagi; Chapter 4: Maxentius, Constantine, and Hadrian: Images and the Expropriation of Imperial Identity; Chapter 5: Late Antique Honorific Sculpture in Constantinople; Chapter 6: Collections, Canons, and Context: The Afterlife of Greek Masterpieces in Late Antiquity.
  • Chapter 7: Late Antique Sculpture in Augusta Emerita and its Territory (Hispania): Officinae, Patterns and CircuitsChapter 8: Temples and Civic Representation in the Theodosian Period; Chapter 9: Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna, and Rome; Chapter 10: Urban Armatures, Urban Vignettes: The Interpermeation of the Reality and the Ideal of the Late Antique Metropolis; Chapter 11: City Personifications in Late Antiquity; Chapter 12: Mythology and Theatre in the Mosaics of the Graeco-Roman East.
  • Chapter 13: Alla ricerca di un'identità. Tradizioni classiche nella prima iconografia CristianaChapter 14: Using and Abusing Images in Late Antiquity (and Beyond): Column Monuments as Topoi of Idolatry; Chapter 15: The Encyclopaedic Illustration of a New Empire: Graeco-Roman-Byzantine and Sasanian Models on the Façade of Qasr al-Mshatta; Index; Geographical; Names (biblical, historical, mythological); Sources; Colour plates.

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