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Decoration and display in Rome's imperial thermae : messages of power and their popular reception at the Baths of Caracalla / Maryl B. Gensheimer.
LIBRA NA3360 .G46 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gensheimer, Maryl B., 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, 188-217.
- Baths of Caracalla (Rome, Italy).
- Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, 188-217--Art patronage.
- Caracalla.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Rome--Themes, motives.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Decoration and ornament, Roman--Themes, motives.
- Decoration and ornament, Roman.
- Art and society--Rome.
- Art and society.
- Art patronage.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Themes, motives.
- Themes, motives.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of these bathing complexes, the Baths of Caracalla (inaugurated 216 CE).
- Contents:
- 1 An Introduction to Baths in Rome and Methodologies of This Study p. 1
- Baths And Bathing In Ancient Rome p. 1
- Rome's Imperial Thermae p. 10
- The Baths Of Caracalla: Their Design And Plan p. 14
- The Baths Of Caracalla: Their History And Excavation p. 21
- The State Of Scholarship p. 28
- Freestanding Sculpture p. 30
- Architectural Sculpture and Columnar Orders p. 33
- Mosaic, Opus Sectile, and Stucco p. 35
- 2 The Decoration of the Baths of Caracalla p. 39
- Recovering The Decorative Program Of The Baths Of Caracalla p. 39
- Works With Known Provenance p. 62
- The Frigidarium p. 62
- The Palaestrae p. 65
- The Natatio p. 67
- The Main Bathing Block p. 68
- The Precinct p. 70
- Works With Hypothetical But Probable Provenance p. 71
- The Frigidarium p. 71
- The Main Bathing Block p. 71
- Works With Unknown Provenance p. 72
- 3 The Role Of Iconographical Programs At The Baths Of Caracalla p. 78
- The Significance Of Decoration To Roman Baths p. 78
- "Typical" Decoration: The Worlds Of Healing, Physical Pleasure, And The Palaestra p. 84
- 'Atypical" Decoration: The Contemporary World p. 94
- Imperial Innuendo: Hercules, Bacchus, Venus, and Mars in the Frigidarium p. 101
- Imperial Explicitness: Res Gestae and Images of Empire in the Palaestrae p. 112
- Colossal Statue Groups and Mythological Exempla p. 126
- Portraiture And Honorific Statuary In The Baths Of Caracalla p. 137
- 4 The Visual Experience and Reception of the Baths of Caracalla p. 147
- Understanding And Interpreting The Ancient Experience Of A Roman Bath p. 147
- A Theoretical Frame: Cognitive Space Theory p. 148
- Color And Pattern: Legibility While Defining The "Armature" p. 153
- Duplicarion, Repetition, And Variation: The Shifting Image p. 165
- Contrasts, Comparisons, And Colossi: Nodes And Landmarks Along The Armature p. 172
- Scaenae Prons Architecture: The Natatio Nymphaeum Wall p. 190
- Septimius Severus and the Septizodium p. 193
- The Natatio Nymphaeum in Context p. 202
- 5 The Power of Place: Where and Why Caracalla's Baths Were Built p. 210
- Dynastic Building Programs, Topography, And Urban Design p. 210
- Topographical Allusions To Legitimacy And Familial Legacy p. 211
- The Severans as the Legitimate and Divinely Sanctioned Successors of the Antonines p. 217
- The Severans and Associations with North Africa p. 221
- Topographical Allusions To Conquest And Empire p. 226.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gensheimer, Maryl B., 1983- Decoration and display in Rome's imperial thermae.
- ISBN:
- 9780190614782
- 0190614781
- OCLC:
- 1020304912
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