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Title Using images in late antiquity / edited by Stine Birk, Troels Myrup Kristensen and Birte Poulsen
Published Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; List of plates; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Chi parla a chi? Epigrafia monumentale e immagine pubblica in epoca tardoantica; Chapter 3: Using Images for Self-Representation on Roman Sarcophagi; Chapter 4: Maxentius, Constantine, and Hadrian: Images and the Expropriation of Imperial Identity; Chapter 5: Late Antique Honorific Sculpture in Constantinople; Chapter 6: Collections, Canons, and Context: The Afterlife of Greek Masterpieces in Late Antiquity
Chapter 7: Late Antique Sculpture in Augusta Emerita and its Territory (Hispania): Officinae, Patterns and CircuitsChapter 8: Temples and Civic Representation in the Theodosian Period; Chapter 9: Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna, and Rome; Chapter 10: Urban Armatures, Urban Vignettes: The Interpermeation of the Reality and the Ideal of the Late Antique Metropolis; Chapter 11: City Personifications in Late Antiquity; Chapter 12: Mythology and Theatre in the Mosaics of the Graeco-Roman East
Chapter 13: Alla ricerca di un'identità. Tradizioni classiche nella prima iconografia CristianaChapter 14: Using and Abusing Images in Late Antiquity (and Beyond): Column Monuments as Topoi of Idolatry; Chapter 15: The Encyclopaedic Illustration of a New Empire: Graeco-Roman-Byzantine and Sasanian Models on the Façade of Qasr al-Mshatta; Index; Geographical; Names (biblical, historical, mythological); Sources; Colour plates
Summary Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period's visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evidence, including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain in the west to Jordan in the east. Contributions span from the depiction of individuals on funerary monuments through monumental epigraphy, Constantine's expropriation and symbolic re-use of earlier monum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English with 2 contributions in Italian
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Aug. 22, 2014)
Subject Art and society -- Mediterranean Region
Visual communication -- Mediterranean Region
Art, Classical -- Mediterranean Region
Art, Medieval -- Mediterranean Region
ART -- History -- General.
HISTORY / General
Art and society
Art, Classical
Art, Medieval
Visual communication
Mediterranean Region
Form Electronic book
Author Birk, Stine, editor
Kristensen, Troels Myrup, editor
Poulsen, Birte, editor
Liverani, Paolo. Chi parla a chi?
LC no. 2014013437
ISBN 9781782972624
1782972625
9781782972648
1782972641
1322027153
9781322027159