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Art and the Roman viewer : the transformation of art from the Pagan world to Christianity
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ISBN: 0521453542 Year: 1995 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press

Roman eyes : visuality and subjectivity in art and text
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ISBN: 9780691096773 0691096775 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press

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In 'Roman Eyes', Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. 'Roman Eyes' is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.


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Roman landscape : culture and identity.
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ISBN: 9781107400245 1107400244 Year: 2010 Volume: 39 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press


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Aesthetic maintenance of civic space : the "classical" city from the 4th to the 7th c. AD
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ISSN: 0777978X ISBN: 9789042923027 9042923024 Year: 2013 Volume: 193 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters Departement Oosterse Studies

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