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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Zanker; Henry Heitmann-Gordon; J. Paul Getty Museum. |
ISBN: | 9781606061015 1606061011 |
OCLC Number: | 774640429 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Italian. |
Notes: | Originally published: Rome-Bari : Gius, Laterza & Figli Spa, 2008. |
Description: | ix, 214 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm |
Contents: | A new art based on Greek forms -- The representation of power and prestige: Conflicting images -- Images of power: Dominion and world order in the Empire -- The Roman house as theater of the joys of life -- Tomb and self-image -- Rome and the Empire -- Toward Late Antiquity. |
Other Titles: | Arte romana. |
Responsibility: | Paul Zanker ; translated by Henry Heitmann-Gordon. |
Abstract:
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.
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