Beyond iconography : materials, methods, and meaning in ancient surface decoration / edited by Sarah Lepinski and Susanna McFadden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lepinski, Sarah, editor.

McFadden, Susanna, editor.

Archaeological Institute of America, issuing body.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Selected papers on ancient art and architecture ; no. 1.

Selected papers on ancient art and architecture ; number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mural painting and decoration, Ancient--Expertising.

Mural painting and decoration, Ancient.

Mural painting and decoration, Ancient--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

vio, 218 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Archaeological Institute of America, [2015]

Summary:

This volume presents a spectrum of current research on ancient surface decoration (painting, mosaic and stuccowork/plasterwork) that offers new avenues of exploration and directions of inquiry. The collected essays draw from a wide range of disciplinary frameworks and integrate material analysis, the study of technical characteristics, the investigation of literary and archaeological evidence, and the interpretation and reconstruction of iconographic programs. Geographically, the papers focus on paintings from the Mediterranean world, including examples from the Bronze Age Aegean, the Hellenistic Levant, and Roman Campania and Greece. Exciting work on Classical Maya paintings in Guatemala augment the case studies from the Mediterranean region and provide an important opportunity for cross-cultural comparisons of ancient artistic and cultural practices as well as modern analytical approaches. By offering a wide chronological and geographic panorama, this volume expands existing research on ancient surface decoration and aims to secure a broad and variable foundation for continued work.

Contents:

Introduction / Sarah Lepinski and Susanna McFadden

Methodologies and materiality: excavating and analyzing fragmentary mural painting, a case study from ancient Corinth / Sarah Lepinski

Maya mural art as collaboration: verifying artists hands at San Bartolo, Guatemala through pigment and plaster composition / Heather Hurst and Caitlin R. O'Grady

Observations on materials and techniques used in Roman wall paintings of the Tablinum, house of the bicentenary at Herculaneum / Francesca Pique, Emily Macdonald-Korth, and Leslie Rainer

Masonry style in Phoenicia: reconstructing sumptuous mural decoration from the "late Hellenistic stuccoed building" at Tel Anafa / Benton Kidd

Retrieving the decorative program of Villa A ("of Poppaea") at Oplontis (Torre Annunziata, Italy): how orphaned fragments find a home in the virtual-reality 3D model / John R. Clarke

Living surfaces: the materiality of Minoan wall paintings / Seth Estrin

Fourth style workshop deployment and movement patterns at Villa A ("of Poppaea") at Oplontis

Bodies of meaning: figural repetition in Pompeian painting / Stephanie Pearson

Heirlooms on the walls: Republican paintings and imperial viewers in Pompeii / Lynley McAlpine

Working within the lines: artists' grids and painted floors at the palace of Nestor / Emily Catherine Egan

Painted pavements: illusion and imitation at Villa A ("of Poppaea") at Oplontis / Lea K. Cline.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781931909310

1931909318

OCLC:

908839044