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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.

Art, Classical. --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Visual perception. --- Art antique --- Esthétique romaine --- Perception visuelle --- Rome ancienne --- --Iconographie --- --Art --- --Littérature --- --Arts, Classical --- Aesthetics, Roman --- Visual Perception --- Arts, Classical. --- Esthétique romaine --- Arts, Classical --- Visual perception --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Classical arts --- Roman aesthetics --- Psychological aspects --- Iconographie --- Art --- Littérature

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Many Romans wrote about the belief that an image - a sculpture or painting, as well as a verbal description or a personage on stage - is not a representation, but the image's prototype or that an image had particular aspects of life. A first group of authors explained these believes as incorrect observation or wrong mental processing by the beholder. Other authors pointed at the excellent craftsmanship of the maker of the image. A third group looked at the supernatural involvement of its prototype, often a god. Together these discourses on the animation of images bring us to what intellectuals from all over the Roman empire saw as reprehensible or acceptable in beholding images as works of art or as cult images. Moreover, these discourses touch upon ontological and epistemological problems. The barrier between life and death was explored and also the conditions to obtain knowledge from observation.

Classical Latin literature --- Art --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sculpture, Roman. --- Art, Roman. --- Naturalism. --- Sculpture --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Technique. --- Roman aesthetics --- Molding (Clay, plaster, etc.) --- Modeling --- Materialism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Science --- Roman art --- Classical antiquities --- Roman sculpture

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Scholarship often treats the post-Roman art produced in central and north-western Europe as representative of the pagan identities of the new 'Germanic' rulers of the early medieval world. In this book, Matthias Friedrich offers a critical reevaluation of the ethnic and religious categories of art that still inform our understanding of early medieval art and archaeology. He scrutinises early medieval visual culture by combining archaeological approaches with art historical methods based on contemporary theory. Friedrich examines the transformation of Roman imperial images, together with the contemporary, highly ornamented material culture that is epitomized by 'animal art.' Through a rigorous analysis of a range of objects, he demonstrates how these pathways produced an aesthetic that promoted variety (varietas), a cross-cultural concept that bridged the various ethnic and religious identities of post-Roman Europe and the Mediterranean worlds.

Art and society --- Art, Medieval --- Art --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Aesthetics, Medieval. --- Medieval aesthetics --- Roman aesthetics --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- History --- Themes, motives. --- Historiography. --- Subjects --- Social aspects

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Das Buch untersucht die decorativen Prinzipien, die in Stadthäusern Pompejis zwischen dem ausgehenden 2. Jh. v.Chr. und der beginnenden Kaiserzeit wirksam werden. Dabei werden erstmals nicht nur einzelne Decorphänomene isoliert, sondern in ihrem räumlichen und sozialen Wirkungszusammenhang untersucht.Um das vielfältige Beziehungsgeflecht von Architektur und Decor zu erschließen, stehen für einzelne Decorphasen jeweils besonders aussagekräftige Fallbeispiele im Vordergrund. Für das ausgehende 2. und beginnende 1. Jh. v. Chr. ist dies die Casa del Fauno, für das mittlere 1. Jh. v. Chr. die Casa del Labirinto, für die beginnende Kaiserzeit die Casa di Giasone, die Casa del Citarista und die Casa di Marcus Lucretius Fronto. Für diese Häuser kommt das ästhetische und semantische Wechselspiel aller räumlich kontextualisierbarer Decorformen - neben Wandmalerei und Pavimenten auch Architekturdecor und Skulptur - zur Sprache. Es geht folglich darum, wie Architektur und Decor unterschiedliche Raumatmosphären entwerfen, wie die unterschiedlich gestalteten Räume zu einer Bühne für die Handlungen des Alltags werden und wie solch soziale Konstellationen wiederum auf die Wahrnehmung der Räume zurückwirken. The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end of the 2nd century BC and the early Imperial period. For the first time, individual decor phenomena are not only considered in isolation, but also in terms of their spatial and social relationship.

E-books --- Mural painting and decoration, Roman --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Antiquities --- ציורי קיר רומים --- Roman mural painting and decoration --- פומפיי (עיר קדומה) --- עתיקות --- Aesthetics, Roman --- Decoration and ornament, Roman --- HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. --- Roman decoration and ornament --- Roman aesthetics --- Pompeii --- Imperial period --- individual decor

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Roman history --- Rome --- Balty, Jean-Charles --- Histoire et culture romaines --- Huldeboeken --- Mélanges --- Romeinse geschiedenis en cultuur --- Portrait sculpture, Roman. --- Art and society --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Sculpture de portraits romaine --- Art et société --- Esthétique romaine --- Bibliography. --- Provinces --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Roman provinces --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- 937 --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Geschiedenis van Rome tot 476 --- History Ancient world Italy --- Balty, Jean Ch --- Balty, Jean Ch. --- Civilization. --- -Antiquities. --- 937 Geschiedenis van Rome tot 476 --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Art et société --- Esthétique romaine --- Antiquités --- Balty, Jean Charles. --- 937 History of ancient Rome (to 476 AD) --- History of ancient Rome (to 476 AD) --- Roman provinces - Antiquities.