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Greek language --- Literature --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Latin literature

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During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across textual and visual media in an integrated way. Weiss' analysis allows for appreciation of the shared strategies of composition, overlaps between literary and visual rhetoric, the role of context in shaping the reception of a work, and the authority of the reader/viewer to generate meaning. The volume offers an account of Roman visual-literary interactions in the mid-first century CE that considers these dynamics as informing broad cultural phenomena. The results reveal features pervasive in a literary and artistic culture invested in exploring the edges of expression. 'The Neronian Grotesque' is a fascinating study on the literary and artistic production in the Neronian period, and has wider implications for anyone working in the field of Roman cultural history and visual studies more broadly.

Aesthetics, Roman --- Art and literature --- Arts, Romanian --- Arts, Roman --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Themes, motives. --- Rome --- History --- Création littéraire --- Création (esthétique) --- Grotesques (ornements)

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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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This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact, centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays in this volume, written by a team of international experts, collectively argue that re-use was a natural feature of human manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of social pressure. Re-use often reflected appreciation for the function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras. Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and re-use, this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.

Architecture, Roman. --- Sculpture materials --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Building materials --- Material culture --- Sculpture, Roman. --- Roman sculpture --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Roman aesthetics --- Artists' materials --- Roman architecture --- Recycling --- Spolia