The Afterlife of the Roman City - 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 The Afterlife of the Roman City write by Hendrik W. Dey. This book was released on 2014-11-17. The Afterlife of the Roman City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
From Pompeii
From Pompeii - 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 From Pompeii write by Ingrid D. Rowland. This book was released on 2014-03-24. From Pompeii available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations. The experience of Pompeii always reflects a particular time and sensibility, says Ingrid Rowland. From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town explores the fascinating variety of these different experiences, as described by the artists, writers, actors, and others who have toured the excavated site. The city's houses, temples, gardens--and traces of Vesuvius's human victims--have elicited responses ranging from awe to embarrassment, with shifting cultural tastes playing an important role. The erotic frescoes that appalled eighteenth-century viewers inspired Renoir to change the way he painted. For Freud, visiting Pompeii was as therapeutic as a session of psychoanalysis. Crown Prince Hirohito, arriving in the Bay of Naples by battleship, found Pompeii interesting, but Vesuvius, to his eyes, was just an ugly version of Mount Fuji. Rowland treats readers to the distinctive, often quirky responses of visitors ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain to Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven throughout a narrative lush with detail and insight is the thread of Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii, where she has returned many times since first visiting in 1962.
The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture
The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture - 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 The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture write by Lea Stirling. This book was released on 2016-06-27. The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, statuary décor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape. Further, changing religious practices cast pagan sculpture in a threatening light. Statuary production ceased, and extant statuary was either harvested for use in construction or abandoned in place. The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture is the first volume to approach systematically the antique destruction and reuse of statuary, investigating key responses to statuary across most regions of the Roman world. The volume opens with a discussion of the complexity of the archaeological record and a preliminary chronology of the fate of statues across both the eastern and western imperial landscape. Contributors to the volume address questions of definition, identification, and interpretation for particular treatments of statuary, including metal statuary and the systematic reuse of villa materials. They consider factors such as earthquake damage, late antique views on civic versus “private” uses of art, urban construction, and deeper causes underlying the end of the statuary habit, including a new explanation for the decline of imperial portraiture. The themes explored resonate with contemporary concerns related to urban decline, as evident in post-industrial cities, and the destruction of cultural heritage, such as in the Middle East.
The Afterlife of the Roman City
The Afterlife of the Roman City - 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 The Afterlife of the Roman City write by Hendrik W. Dey. This book was released on 2014-11-17. The Afterlife of the Roman City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders continued to maintain and embellish monumental architectural corridors established in late antiquity, the narrow but grandiose urban itineraries, essentially processional ways, in which their parades and solemn public appearances consistently unfolded. Hendrik W. Dey's approach selectively integrates urban topography with the actors who unceasingly strove to animate it for many centuries.
The Afterlife of the Roman City
The Afterlife of the Roman City - 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 The Afterlife of the Roman City write by Hendrik W. Dey. This book was released on 2018. The Afterlife of the Roman City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
