Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity write by Rocco Sinisgalli. This book was released on 2012-09-17. Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view. This concept was known in classical antiquity. In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories of linear perspective in the classical era. Departing from the received understanding of perspective in the ancient world, he argues that ancient theories of perspective were primarily based on the study of objects in mirrors, rather than the study of optics and the workings of the human eye. In support of this argument, Sinisgalli analyzes, and offers new insights into, some of the key classical texts on this topic, including Euclid's De speculis, Lucretius' De rerum natura, Vitruvius' De architectura and Ptolemy's De opticis. Key concepts throughout the book are clarified and enhanced by detailed illustrations.
Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity
Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity write by Rocco Sinisgalli. This book was released on 2012-09-17. Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates theories of linear perspective in classical antiquity.
Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art
Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art write by Anna Cecilia Olovsdotter. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Envisioning Worlds in Late Antique Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and ’material’ world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, ’spiritual’ mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives. In ten chapters, ten authors specialised in various fields of late-antique and Byzantine art explore the historiographical background of the ’spiritual’ interpretation paradigm, neuroscientific and theological dimensions of Christian visual aesthetics, meanings and motive factors behind apparently wholly abstract and aniconic compositions, symbolic motifs and schemes for visualising cosmic order and the cosmic state of Christ, and the re-use of symbolic Greco-Roman themes in Christian contexts. The result is a multi-focal image of late antique abstraction and symbolism that illuminates the heterogeneity and complexity of the phenomena and of their study.
Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art
Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art write by Nikolaus Dietrich. This book was released on 2018-03-19. Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman materials have proved instrumental in shaping modern assumptions. On the other hand, those ideologies are fundamentally removed from ancient ideas: an ancient perspective can therefore shed light on larger aesthetic debates about what images are – or indeed what they should be. This anthology of specially commissioned essays explores a variety of case studies (both literary and art historical alike): it discusses materials from across the ancient Mediterranean, and from Geometric art all the way through to late antiquity; the book also tackles questions of ‘figure’ and ‘ornament’ in relation to different media – including painting, free-standing statues, relief sculpture, mosaics and architecture. A particular feature of the volume lies in bringing together different national academic traditions, building a bridge between formalist approaches and broader cultural historical perspectives.
A Globalised Visual Culture?
A Globalised Visual Culture? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Globalised Visual Culture? write by Fabio Guidetti. This book was released on 2020-07-31. A Globalised Visual Culture? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural decoration, and luxury arts (silver plate, textiles, ivories), as well as in everyday objects such as tableware, lamps, and pilgrim vessels. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions, mingled with local elements, far beyond the traditional borders of the classical world. At the same time, foreign motifs, especially of Germanic and Sasanian origin, are attested in Roman territories. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions. The presentation of a wide range of relevant case studies chosen from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the vast scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of addressing such a complex historical question with a combination of different theoretical approaches.
