Using images in late antiquity
Title:
Using images in late antiquity
Chi parla a chi?
Author:
Birk, Stine, editor.
ISBN:
9781782972617
Physical Description:
viii, 312 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
Chi parla a chi? Epigrafia monumentale e immagine pubblica in epoca tardoantica / Paolo Liverani -- Unsing images for self-representation in Roman sarcophagi / Stine Birk -- Maxentius, Constantine, and Hadrian : images and expropriation of imperial identity / Eric R. Varner -- Late antique honorific sculpture in Constantinople / Sarah E. Bassett -- Collections, canons, and context : the afterlife of Greek masterpieces in late antiquity / Leo Stirling -- Late antique sculpture in Augsuta Emerita and its territory (Hispania) : Officinae, patterns and circuits / Trinidad Nogales Basarrate -- Temples and civic representation in the Theodosian Period / Ine Jacobs -- Triumphal arches and gates of piety at Constantinople, Ravenna, and Roman / Simon Malmberg -- Urban armatures, urban vignettes : the interpermeation of the reality and the ideal of the late antique metropolis / Hendrik Dey -- City personifications in late antiquity / Birte Poulsen -- Mythology and theatre in the mosaics of the Graeco-Roman east / Katherine M.D. Dunbabin -- Alla ricerca di un identita Tradizioni classiche nella prima iconografia Christiana / Arnaldo Marcone -- Using and abusing images in late antiquity (and beyond) : column monuments as topoi of idolatry / Troels Myrup Kristensen -- The encyclopaedic illustration of a new empire : Graeco-Roman-Byzantine and Sasanian models on the façade of Qasr al-Mshatta / Katharina Meinecke.
Abstract:
"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 evidence, including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain in the west to Jordan in the east. Contributions span from the depiction of individuals on funerary monuments through monumental epigraphy, Constantine's expropriation and symbolic re-use of earlier monuments, late antique collections of Classical statuary, and city personifications in mosaics to the topic of civic prosperity during the Theodosian period and dynastic representation during the Umayyad dynasty. Together they provide new insights into the central role of visual culture in the constitution of late antique societies."-- Back cover.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz406915091inh.htm
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-300) and index.
Field 805:
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