The ancient art of transformation : case studies from Mediterranean contexts / edited by Renee M. Gondek and Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gondek, Renee M., editor.

Sulosky Weaver, Carrie Lynn, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Ancient.

Life cycle, Human, in art.

Visual communication--History--To 1500.

Visual communication.

Visual communication--Mediterranean Region.

History.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region.

Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations (some color)

polychrome

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. On the threshold of old age: perceptions of the elderly in Athenian red-figure vase-painting / Nicholas A. Harokopos

2. The transformation of the bride in Attic vase-painting / Victoria Sabetai

3. Transitory nudity: life changes in Etruscan art / Bridget Sandhoff

4. Cultural manoeuvring in the elite tombs of Ptolemaic Egypt / Sara E. Cole

5. Octavian transformed as pharaoh and as Emperor Augustus / Erin A. Peters

6. Ethnic identity, Social identity, and the aesthetics of sameness in the funerary monuments of Roman freedmen / Devon Stewart

7. Greater in death: the transformative effect of convivial iconography on Roman cineraria / Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver

8. A viewer walks into a tomb: transformation in the Cubiculum Leonis / Ethan Gannaway

9. Protoplasts and prophets: the stucco reliefs in the Orthodox Baptistery in Ravenna / Rachel Danford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ancient art of transformation.

ISBN:

9781789251050

1789251052

Publisher Number:

99984076384

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.