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This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich contextual readings regarding the dense network of location, architecture, accessibility, lighting, landscape, decoration. In Pompeian houses alcove cubicula were among the key reception rooms. Their images acted as prime symbols of power, as real weapons in strategies of distinction. Luxury, lifestyle, prestige, and the debates around them seem to be primarily related to the design of these comparatively small environments. No other type of room shows such quick adaptation to the most up-to-date trends, owing to a series of real revolutions in fashion first developed for lavish patrician residences, then spread among medium-, later even small-size abodes throughout town. In the realm of domestic life, alcove rooms constitute a sound source for inquiring into the different tastes of Pompeii's various social groups. Defined by financial means and social affluence, their tastes ranged from aesthetics of luxury to an ordinary reception of trivialized clichés.

Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture, Roman. --- Domestic space --- Architecture and society --- Architecture domestique --- Architecture romaine --- Espace domestique --- Architecture et société --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) --- Social life and customs --- Buildings, structures, etc --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Constructions --- Architecture and society --Rome. --- Architecture, Domestic --Social aspects --Rome. --- Domestic space --Rome. --- Domiciles --- Architecture --- Architecture, Roman --- Dwellings --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- Roman architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive --- Archaeology of Built Environment. --- Pompeii. --- Roman Domestic Architecture. --- Roman Housing. --- Social Archaeology.

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Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.

Marble sculpture, Roman. --- Struts (Stone carving) --- Stone carving --- Roman marble sculpture

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The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder’s Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny’s encyclopaedia has enraptured the imaginations of its readers with anecdotes and narratives about the lives and accomplishments of the great artists of the Greek past. This book explores the ways in which materials and artistic processes are constructed in Natural History.In doing so, this work reflects current developments in the study of Graeco-Roman art, where the scientific analysis of sculptural stones, pigments, and metal alloys, as well as a more detailed understanding of technologies and workshop practices, has imposed radical changes in the methods and theoretical models used to approach ancient artefacts. The argument considers the role of materials in discourses on Nature, as well as their semantics and the language used to account for artistic creation. Discussion of artistic techniques addresses the discovery of resources and technologies, and the discursive implications of creation and viewing. By focusing on particular passages and exemplary case studies, this book explores the ideological, moral, and intellectual preoccupations that guide Pliny’s construction of materialities and human ingenuity in a period characterised by a rapidly-evolving economic landscape. The material and performative aspects of artistic, manual creation provided this early encyclopaedist with the fundaments for constructing and explaining his view of Rome’s imperial mission and, more specifically, of his own strategies as a collector and recorder of ‘all’ the memorable facts of Nature.This book will be of significant interest to scholars of classical archaeology, Greek and Latin literature, social and economic history, and reception studies.

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This volume addresses the presentation of artistic processes and their materials in the 'Natural History' and focuses on the issues that lie at the root of Pliny's work: his account of the technological, economical, ideological, and aesthetic aspects of materials. In his 'Natural History', Pliny the Elder organises his discussion of crafts according to the raw materials they utilize. However, scholarly literature has paid little attention to the aspect of materiality, preferring to focus on the biographies and achievements of ancient Greek artists. This collection instead addresses the presentation of artistic processes and their materials in the 'Natural History'. This approach corresponds with current developments in the study of Greco-Roman art, wherein scientific analysis of artistic materials including stones, pigments, and metal alloys, as well as a deeper understanding of workshop practices, has imposed profound changes on the methods used in the study of ancient artefacts.

Art --- art history --- natural history --- biological material --- Greco-Roman --- Pliny [Elder] --- Artists' materials --- Art, Greco-Roman. --- Matériel d'artistes --- Art gréco-romain. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Pliny, --- Art, Greco-Roman --- Greco-Roman art --- Art material --- Art materials --- Art supplies --- Painters' materials --- History --- Equipment and supplies --- Plinius Secundus, Caius --- Pline l'Ancien --- Plinius de Oudere --- Cayo Plinio Segundo --- Gaĭ Pliniĭ Sekund Starshiĭ --- Gaius Plinius Secundus --- Pliniĭ --- Pliniĭ Starshiĭ, Gaĭ Sekund --- Plinio, --- Plinio Segundo, Cayo --- Plinius Secundus, C. --- Plinius Secundus --- Plynius Secundus, C. --- Secundus, C. Plinius --- Secundus, Caius Plinius --- Secundus, Gaius Plinius --- Segundo, Cayo Plinio --- Pline,

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Architecture, Roman --- Mural painting and decoration, Roman --- Pompeii (Extinct city)