Beyond boundaries : connecting visual cultures in the provinces of ancient Rome / Susan E. Alcock, Mariana Egri, and James F.D. Frakes, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcock, Susan E., editor.

Egri, Mariana, editor.

Frakes, James F. D., editor.

Getty Publications, issuing body.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Beyond boundaries (Getty Publications)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Roman--Rome--Provinces.

Art, Roman.

Art, Roman--Themes, motives.

Roman provinces--Antiquities.

Roman provinces.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

Art, Roman--Roman provinces.

Physical Description:

viii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Publications, [2016]

Summary:

This book includes nineteen provocative and compelling essays by international scholars-accomplished by rich visual documentation, seven detailed maps, and an extensive bibliography-and represents the latest and most innovative scholarship in the field of art and archaelogy of the Roman provinces.

Contents:

Part One : Approaches to provincial contexts. What is a province / Alicia Jiménez

A synoecism of cultures in Roman Greece / Maria Papaioannou

Networks : exile and tourism in the Roman Cyclades / Rebecca Sweetman

A portrait of the artist as a mosaicist under the Roman Empire / Will Wootton

Material matters : object, authorship, and audience in the arts of Rome's empire / Steven Hijmans. Part Two : traditions, innovation, manipulation. Developing a "sculptural habit" : the creation of a sculptural tradition in the Roman Central Balkans / Dragana Mladenović

In search of identities : a preliminary report on the visual and textual context of the funerary monuments of Roman Macedonia / A.D. Rizakis and I. Touratsoglou

Coins before conquest in Celtic France : an art lost to empire / Kimberly Cassibry

Mallokouria : portraits of local elite boys in Roman Egypt / Marianne Bergmann

The architecture of changing sacrificial practices in Pre-Roman and Roman Gaul. Part Three : Networks, movements, meaning. Celtic design, Roman ubjects : a portrait of Marcus Aurelius from rural Britain / Susan Walker

Footsteps in stone : variability within a global culture / Louise Revell

Objective alterity : import consumption in the ports of Roman Egypt / Jennifer Gates-Foster

Roamn medallions in Scandinavia : shifting contexts of space, time, and meaning / Nancy L. Wicker

The British Museum Hāritī : toward understanding transculturalism in Gandhara / Naman P. Ahuja. Part Four : local accents in the imperial context. Gods, masks, and monstra : situational syncretisms in Roman Africa / Matthew M. McCarty

Constructed landscape : designing urban centers in Roman Africa / Thomas Morton

Heritage and homogeneity in the coinage of early Roman Antioch / Carlos F. Noreña

Looking at the classical past : tradition, identity, and copies of nobilia opera in Roman Greece / Valentina Di Napoli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-370) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781606064719

1606064711

OCLC:

912507836

Publisher Number:

40026029650

9781606064719