Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae: Messages of Power and Their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla

ISBN-13: 9780190614782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 448 str.

Maryl B. Gensheimer

Opis

Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of these bathing complexes, the Baths of Caracalla (inaugurated 216 CE).

Recenzje

This is a book with something for everyone...Some readers will no doubt privilege the appendices, which include an inventory of the seventy-five free-standing statues from the Baths of Caracalla (271-388). Others will use the book as a digestible - and meticulously footnoted - introduction to the complex as a whole, including a useful summary of all evidence for visual adornment

O autorze

Maryl B. Gensheimer is Assistant Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at the University of Maryland.