Using images in late antiquity / edited by Stine Birk, Troels Myrup Kristensen and Birte Poulsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liverani, Paolo. Chi parla a chi?, author.

Contributor:

Birk, Stine, editor.

Kristensen, Troels Myrup, editor.

Poulsen, Birte, editor.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Mediterranean Region.

Art and society.

Visual communication--Mediterranean Region.

Visual communication.

Art, Classical--Mediterranean Region.

Art, Classical.

Art, Medieval--Mediterranean Region.

Art, Medieval.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

viii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English with 2 contributions in Italian.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Stine Birk Birk, Stine, Troels Myrup Kristensen Kristensen, Troels Myrup, Birte Poulsen Poulsen, Birte 1

2 Chi parla a chi? Epigrafia monumentale e immagine pubblica in epoca tardoantica / Paolo Liverani Liverani, Paolo 3

3 Using Images for Self-Representation on Roman Sarcophagi / Stine Birk Birk, Stine 33

4 Maxentius, Constantine, and Hadrian: Images and the Expropriation of Imperial Identity / Eric R. Varner Varner, Eric R. 48

5 Late Antique Honorific Sculpture in Constantinople / Sarah E. Bassett Bassett, Sarah E. 78

6 Collections, Canons, and Context: The Afterlife of Greek Masterpieces in Late Antiquity / Lea Stirling Stirling, Lea 96

7 Late Antique Sculpture in Augusta Emerita and its Territory (Hispania): Officinae, Patterns and Circuits / Trinidad Nogales Basarrate Basarrate, Trinidad Nogales 115

8 Temples and Civic Representation in the Theodosian Period / Ine Jacobs Jacobs, Ine 132

9 Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna, and Rome / Simon Malmberg Malmberg, Simon 150

10 Urban Armatures, Urban Vignettes: The Interpermeation of the Reality and the Ideal of the Late Antique Metropolis / Hendrik Dey Dey, Hendrik 190

11 City Personifications in Late Antiquity / Birte Poulsen Poulsen, Birte 209

12 Mythology and Theatre in the Mosaics of the Graeco-Roman East / Katherine M. D. Dunbabin Dunbabin, Katherine M. D. 227

13 Alia ricerca di un'identità. Tradizioni classiche nella prima iconografia Cristiana / Arnaldo Marcone Marcone, Arnaldo 253

14 Using and Abusing Images in Late Antiquity (and Beyond): Column Monuments as Topoi of Idolatry / Troels Myrup Kristensen Kristensen, Troels Myrup 268

15 The Encyclopaedic Illustration of a New Empire: Graeco-Roman-Byzantine and Sasanian Models on the Façade of Qasr al-Mshatta / Katharina Meinecke Meinecke, Katharina 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Liverani, Paolo. Chi parla a chi?, author.

Other Format:

Online version: Using images in late antiquity.

ISBN:

9781782972617

1782972617

OCLC:

875674796

Online:

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