Art and rhetoric in Roman culture
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Elsner, Jaś.
Meyer, Michel |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xx, 304 p. : ill. (color) ; 25 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface Michel Meyer; Introduction Jas Elsner; Part I. Architecture and Public Space: 1. On the sublime in architecture Edmund Thomas; 2. Sublime histories, exceptional viewers: Trajan's Column and its visibility Francesco de Angelis; 3. Corpore enormi: the rhetoric of physical appearance in Suetonius and imperial portrait statuary Jennifer Trimble; 4. Beauty and the Roman female portrait Eve D'Ambra; Part II. The Domestic Realm: 5. The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii: rhetoric and the topology of Roman wall-painting Katharina Lorenz; 6. Agamemnon's grief: on the limits of expression in Roman rhetoric and painting Verity Platt; Part III. The Funerary: 7. Rhetoric and art in third-century AD Rome Barbara Borg; 8. Poems in stone: reading mythological sarcophagi through Statius' Consolations Zahra Newby; 9. The funerary altar of Pedana and the rhetoric of unreachability Caroline Vout; 10. Rational, passionate and appetitive: the psychology of rhetoric and the transformation of visual culture from non-Christian to Christian sarcophagi in the Roman world Rhetoric, Ancient Elsner; Part IV. Rhetoric and the Visual: 11. The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order Michael Squire; Coda: the rhetoric of Roman painting within the history of culture: a global interpretation Michel Meyer.
