Art & Architecture

ISBN: 9789004227231
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The well-known formats of Roman sculpture are the ones best preserved, but inevitably limited to those designed to be permanent and immobile. A significant component of the Roman visual world missing from this record are those ima... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754665625
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This volume explores the phenomenon of urban loss and abandonment from Roman to medieval times across the former Roman Empire. Through a series of case studies two main aspects are examined: firstly, the sequences and chronologies... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107001022
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Drawing on hundreds of tombstones from Rome, Italy and the Western provinces, this study assesses how parents visualised childhood. By considering the most popular funerary themes and iconographic models, it emphasises both the em... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780946418930
Published by : Hobnob Press
Roman remains have been known beneath the Wiltshire village of Box since the early nineteenth century. This book describes, in non-technical terms, the discovery and excavation of this remarkable site. It gathers together all of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789491431036
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Groningen Archaeological Studies
Volume: 18
This dissertation presents four methodological case studies that elaborate on the results of two field survey projects (the Astura and Nettuno surveys) that were carried out by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA). The case studies aim at ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895008979
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: PALILIA
Volume: 26
In 1873 August Mau published his ground-breaking discovery that the wall paintings in the houses of Pompeii do not date back to the towns last twenty or thirty years, before it was buried by the Vesuvian ashes in 79 A.D., but to a period of more t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789993273967
Published by : Midsea Books
This book, now in its second revised edition, studies the mechanics of patronage of Roman Baroque sculpture produced for the Knights of the Order of St John and discusses the extent of such patronage together with the artistic and historical i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004182714
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book is based on an investigation of more than five hundred recarved portraits. The different recarving methods have made it possible to suggest classifiable categories, which together underpin a hypothesis that the late-antique portrait ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521877503
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in th... .... Learn More