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The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 / Jaś Elsner.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford history of artPublication details: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, ©2018Edition: Second editionDescription: xx, 314 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198768630
  • 019876863X
Uniform titles:
  • Imperial Rome and Christian triumph
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.37 23 ELS
Contents:
Part I: Images and power. Part II: Images and society. Part III: Images and transformation. Part IV: Epilogue
Summary: "The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations."--
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General Books General Books CUTN Central Library Arts & Sports Non-fiction 709.37 ELS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 41694

First edition published 1998 by Oxford University Press with the title: Imperial Rome and Christian triumph : the art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450.

Part I: Images and power. Part II: Images and society. Part III: Images and transformation. Part IV: Epilogue

"The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations."--

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267, 285-295) and index.

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