Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago.
When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. its lava preserved not only the Pompeii of that time but a palimpsest of the city's history, visible traces of the different societies of Pompeii's past. Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture, disentangles these tantalizing traces to show us the urban...
Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illu...
Offers fresh insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. The author offers a cultural history of the functions of the visual arts, the messages that these images carried, and the values that they affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire.
Offers fresh insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. The author offers a cultural history of the functions of the visual a...
1 B. Eschenburg, Spatromantik und Realismus (Bayer. Staatsgemaldesamml. Neue Pinakothek, Munchen), Munchen 1984, 219-221. Zur Glyptothek vgl. K. Vierneisel- G. Leinz (Hrsg.), Glyptothek Munchen 1830-1980 (Ausstellungskatalog Munchen 1980). 2 P. Veyne, Le Pain et le Cirque. Sociologie historique d'un pluralisme politique (Paris 1976); deutsch gekurzt: Brot und Spiele (Munchen 1994 ). 3 H. Kloft, Liberalitas Principis. Herkunft und Bedeutung. Studien zur Principatsideologie (Koln/Wien 1970); ders. Freigebigkeit und Finanzen, der soziale und finanzielle Aspekt der augusteischen Liberalitas, in:...
1 B. Eschenburg, Spatromantik und Realismus (Bayer. Staatsgemaldesamml. Neue Pinakothek, Munchen), Munchen 1984, 219-221. Zur Glyptothek vgl. K. Viern...
This is the fourth and final volume of the catalogue of Roman portraits in the Capitoline Museums. It includes around 60 portraits of children, supplements to Volumes I III, and 120 portraits from relief sculptures.
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This is the fourth and final volume of the catalogue of Roman portraits in the Capitoline Museums. It includes around 60 portraits of children, sup...
