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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Newby, Zahra. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Greek myths in Roman art and culture [Texte imprimé] : imagery, values and identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 / Zahra Newby,...
Publication : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-387 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Collection : Greek culture in the Roman world
Lien à la collection : Greek culture in the Roman world
Comprend : Art and power in the public sphere ; Recreating myth in the Roman villa ; Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings ; Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house ; From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm ; The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation ; Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 348-384. Index
"Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in
sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring
fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture
for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek
myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts.
It argues that myths, in addition to functioning as signifiers of a patron's education
or paideia, played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The changing
use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art in particular reveals an
important shift in Roman values and senses of identity across the period of the first
two centuries AD, and in the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values"
Sujet(s) : Mythologie grecque -- Dans l'art
Art roman -- Influence grecque
Art roman -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107072244 (hardback). - ISBN 1107072247 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451255110
Notice n° :
FRBNF45125511
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