Relief in Greek, Roman, and late antique art / edited for the department of classics by Nathaniel B. Jones, Milette Gaifman, Jaś Elsner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsner, Jaś, editor.

Gaifman, Milette, 1971- editor.

Jones, Nathaniel B. (Nathaniel Barrett), editor.

Series:

Yale classical studies ; v. 40.

Yale Classical studies ; volume XL

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relief (Sculpture), Greek.

Relief (Sculpture), Roman.

Relief (Sculpture), Classical.

Relief (Sculpture), Early Christian.

Art, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 361 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press , 2025.

Summary:

"Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world, and demonstrates the ubiquity, fluidity, and power of relief as an artistic category, in both antiquity and modernity"-- provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Nathaniel B. Jones, Milette Gaifman, Jaś Elsner

Ancient relief : terminology, medium, ontology / Verity J. Platt

Thinking through marble : early Attic stelai as lithic technology / Caspar Meyer and Chris Pelletieri

The body in relief in archaic funerary sculpture / Seth Estrin

Relief in Athenian vase-painting : reflectivity, presence, and pictorial space / Guy Hedreen

Sculpture, relief, and the surrounding space : sculpture vs. relief, sculpture as relief / Nikolaus Dietrich

Seeing the past; neo-Attic reliefs as sites of temporal and spatial contact / Carolyn M. Laferrière

Remedial relief / Nathaniel B. Jones

Foregrounding the background in Roman relief sculpture / Jennifer Trimble

Encrusted in ancestors : formal reflections on the funerary reliefs of Palmyra / Nicola Barham

Relief on and for the body in late antique numismatic jewelry / Ashley Elizabeth Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Relief in Greek, Roman, and late antique art.

ISBN:

9781009505765

1009505769

OCLC:

1514892838

Publisher Number:

CIPO000261300