Ancient Rome Art, Architecture, and History

Name: Ancient Rome Art, Architecture, and History
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ISBN: 9780892366569

ISBN-10: 0892366567

ISBN-13: 9780892366569

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ada Gabucci, Stefano Peccatori, Stefano Zuffi, T. M. Hartmann

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Rome continues to be the monumental expression of a legend. It is the eternal city where all roads of the ancient world converged, and through the millennia has been the model for the very concept of a universal empire. Through art, architecture, and urban planning, the empire expanded with an exceptional synthesis of technology, politics, law, and propaganda, conquering Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East. Accompanied by masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and painting and the words of illustrious figures, Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture, and History follows the arc of the city and its civilization from their beginnings to their height and decline. Included are discussions of…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors' Professor of Communication, Culture and English, Indiana University. Previous publications include More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts (University of California Press, 1998).Ada Gabucci holds a degree in archaeology from the University of Trieste and has participated in numerous excavation campaigns in Italy. Her publications include L'antica Roma (2000), Roma antica (2000) and Roma e il suo impero (2003).



Prologue


The Roman Republic Begins to Assert Itself


Toward an Empire


27 B.C. - A.D. 96, The Empire's Beginning and Establishment


The Pax Augusta: Ideology and Propaganda


The Augustan Style


A Portrait of Augustus


The Ara Pacis


Artistic Craftwork


Livia's Villa


The Provinces: Narbonesis Gaul


Portraits of the Julio-Claudian Family


Nero and the Domus Aurea


The Flavian Dynasty: A Turning Point for the Principate


Flavian Art


Pompeii


Styles of Pompeii


The Arch of Titus and the Historic Roman Relief


Bread and Circuses


The Colosseum


A.D. 96-192, The Height of the Empire: From Trajan to the Antonines


Trajan the Optimus Princeps


The Trajan Forum and Market


The Provinces: Hispania


Hadrian's Villa


Hadrian and Antinous


Urban and Architectural Development


Palmyra


The Eastern Rites: Isis


Marble Funeral Monuments and Sarcophagi


Mosaics and Stuccowork


A Golden Age of Justice and Well-being


The Antonine Column


Marcus Aurelius


A Turning Point during the Reign of Commodus


The Portraits of Fayyum


A.D. 192-305, Crisis in the Empire: From the Severans to the Tetrarchy


A Turning Point for the Military


Lepcis Magna


Sculpture in Rome and Africa


Portraits and Sarcophagi


The Catacombs


The Baths of Caracalla


Invasions and Disorder


Rome as Fortress: The Aurelian Walls


The Tetrarchy: Toward a New Peace


The Baths of Diocletian


Diocletian's Reforms


A.D. 305-565, The Fall of the Empire: Epilogue to an Ancient World


The Christian Empire


The Arch of Constantine


Treveri


Marble Inlay and Mosaics


Piazza Armerina


The Mausoleum of Constantina


Aquileia


The Sacred and Profane on Sarcophagi


Diptychs


Theodosius and the Suppression of Pagan Worship


The Fall of the Western Empire


Constantinople and the Triumph of Christian Art


Justinian and the Byzantine Empire


Ravenna


Appendixes


The Roman Empire under Trajan (A.D. 98-117)


Fourth-Century Rome


Index of Places


Index of Names