The Artists of the Ara Pacis: The Process of Hellenization in Roman Relief Sculpture - Couverture rigide

Livre 2 sur 22: Studies in the History of Greece and Rome

Conlin, Diane Atnally

 
9780807823439: The Artists of the Ara Pacis: The Process of Hellenization in Roman Relief Sculpture
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ISBN 10 : 0807823430 ISBN 13 : 9780807823439
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Synopsis

The Ara Pacis Augustae, or Altar of Augustan Peace, was built to commemorate the return to Rome of the emperor Augustus and his general Agrippa, who had been away for many years on military campaigns. Dedicated in 9 BC, the monument consists of an altar and surrounding wall, both decorated with a series of processional friezes. Art historians and archaeologists have made the Ara Pacis one of the best-known, most studied monuments of Augustan Rome, and this book reassesses the artistic traditions in which its sculptors worked. Illustrated with over 250 photographs, Conlin's analysis demonstrates that the carvers of the monument's large processional friezes were not Greek masters, as previously assumed, but Italian trained sculptors influenced by both native and Hellenic stonecarving practices. Her systematic examination of the physical evidence left by the sculptors themselves - the traces of tool marks, the carving of specific details, the compositional formulas of the friezes - also incorporates an informed understanding of the historical context in which these artists worked.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Ara Pacis Augustae, or Altar of Augustan Peace, was built to commemorate the return to Rome of the emperor Augustus and his general Agrippa, who had been away for many years on military campaigns. Dedicated in 9 B.C., the monument consists of an altar and surrounding wall, both decorated with a series of processional friezes. Art historians and archaeologists have made the Ara Pacis one of the best-known, most-studied monuments of Augustan Rome, but Diane Conlin's reassessment of the artistic traditions in which its sculptors worked makes a groundbreaking contribution to this scholarship.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807823430
ISBN 13 
9780807823439
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
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9780807868997: The Artists of the Ara Pacis: The Process of Hellenization in Roman Relief Sculpture

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ISBN 10 :  080786899X ISBN 13 :  9780807868997
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2011
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