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"This book provides an enquiry into the distinguishing traits of Greek and Roman figural imagery. A detailed analysis of materials, representing a wide range of media, convey an understanding of the figural imagery of classical antiquity as a whole, counterbalancing studies conducted on single genres. Through in-depth studies of six major production categories - Greek painted pottery, Roman decorated walls, Greek gravestones, Roman sarcophagi, Greek and Roman official sculpture, and Greek and Roman coins - the reader gains insights into the primary media of classical figural imagery. The images are explored within their contextual frameworks, paying attention to both functional purposes and pictorial traditions. Image-viewer relations offer a perspective that is maintained across the chapters. The bottom-up approach and the many genres of imagery discussed provide the basis for an extensive synthesis. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 images, Excursions into Greek and Roman Imagery provides a valuable resource for students of classical antiquity and history of art. The book also offers classical scholars, museum curators, and others interested in classical art a fresh approach to the figural imagery of antiquity"--

Art, Greek --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Roman --- Art and society --- Themes, motives --- History

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Art romain --- Art, Roman --- Histoire. --- History. --- Rome --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités. --- Histoire --- History

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Artists in Roman Italy created exquisite landscapes that reflect close ties with their environment, ranging from images of sunny seaside villas and tranquil country shrines to colorful views of Greece and Egypt. This groundbreaking volume explores the intimate connections between these works and ancient Romans' social, political and religious lives. Essays by six distinguished scholars discuss landscapes in a variety of media that decorated urban houses and tombs in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum and sumptuous coastal villas on the Bay of Naples. The catalog features more than 65 wall paintings, marble sculptures, mosaics, and costly drinking vessels in silver and cameo glass from 100 BC to AD 200, including rarely seen works from museums and archeological sites in Italy. Richly illustrated, this timely volume reflects shared human concerns about control and development of the land, about the competing demands of wealth and piety, and about preserving natural resources.Exhibition: San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA (24.02-21.05.2023).

Landscapes in art --- Myth in art --- Art, Roman --- Painting, Roman --- Sculpture, Roman --- Relief (Sculpture), Roman --- Themes, motives --- Rome --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Antiquities

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What do forgeries do? This book explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the forgery of physical books, coins, and religious relics. The book examines the cultural, historical, and rhetorical functions of forgery that extend beyond the desire to deceive and profit. It analyses forgery in connection with related phenomena like pseudepigraphy, fakes, and copies; and it investigates the aesthetic and historical value that forgeries possess when scholarship takes seriously their form, content, and varied uses within and across cultures. Of particular interest is the way that forgeries embody a desire for the ancient and for the recovery of the fragmentary past of ancient Rome.

Classical antiquities --- Forgery --- Art, Roman --- Literary forgeries and mystifications. --- Forgery of antiquities. --- Faux --- Antiquités --- Antiquités gréco-romaines --- Art romain --- Faux et supercheries littéraires. --- Forgery. --- Forgeries. --- History --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Histoire. --- Aspect social. --- Faux. --- Histoire --- Rome (Empire).