Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations
Redaktion: Ng, Diana Y.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact, centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays in this volume, written by a team of international experts, collectively argue that reuse was a natural feature of human manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of social pressure. Reuse often reflected appreciation for the function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras. Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and reuse, this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108676052
• Artikelnr.: 54005954

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'Reuse, renovation, reiteration' Diana Y. Ng and Molly
Swetnam-Burland; 1. 'The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in
Pompeii' Brenda Longfellow; 2. 'The Vigiles, dynastic succession and
symbolic reappropriation in the Caserma dei Vigili at Ostia' Margaret L.
Laird; 3. 'The epigraphy of appropriation: retrospective signatures of
Greek sculptors in the Roman World' Catherine M. Keesling; 4. 'Gateways to
the past: the Hadrianic architecture of procession in Pisidian Antioch and
Athens' Adrian J. Ossi; 5. 'Visual literacy and reuse in the architecture
of late Imperial Rome' Elisha Ann Dumser; 6. 'Urban transformations at
Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: destruction or intentional preservation?'
Esen Ogus; 7. 'Acquiring the antique in Byzantine Rome: the economics of
architectural reuse at Santa Maria Antiqua' Gregor Kalas; 8. 'The afterlife
of the amphitheater: cultural biography and social memory at Tarragona'
Sheila Bond.