The Language of Images in Roman Art

di Tonio Hoelscher (Autore)

Anthony Snodgrass (Traduttore)

Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass (Traduttore)

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This book, first published in 2004, develops a theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art. By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and the ideological messages contained within. The history of Roman art traditionally followed the model of a sequence of stylistic phases affecting the works of their era in the manner of a uniform Zeitgeist. By contrast, the author shows different stylistic forms being used for different themes and messages. The reception of Greek models, a key phenomenon of Roman art, thus appear in a new light. The formulations of specific messages are established from Greek art types of different eras serving to express Roman ideological values: classical forms for the grandeur of the state, Hellenistic forms for the struggling effort of warfare. In this way a conceptual and comprehensible pictorial language arose, uniting the multicultural population of the Roman state.

• Autore: Tonio Hoelscher
• Traduttore: Anthony Snodgrass, Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 188 p.
• Dimensioni: 227 x 164 mm
• Peso: 275 gr.
• EAN: 9780521665698

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