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In this fresh, accessible, and beautifully illustrated book, his third to examine an aspect of Roman visual culture, John R. Clarke explores the question, "What made Romans laugh?" 'Looking at Laughter 'examines a heterogeneous corpus of visual material, from the crudely obscene to the exquisitely sophisticated and from the playful to the deadly serious--everything from street theater to erudite paintings parodying the emperor. Nine chapters, organized under the rubrics of Visual Humor, Social Humor, and Sexual Humor, analyze a wide range of visual art, including wall painting, sculpture, mosaics, and ceramics. Archaeological sites, as well as a range of ancient texts, inscriptions, and graffiti, provide the background for understanding the how and why of humorous imagery. This entertaining study offers fascinating insights into the mentality of Roman patrons and viewers who enjoyed laughing at the gods, the powers-that-be, and themselves.

Wit and humor in art --- Arts, Roman --- Arts, Roman. --- Wit and humor in art. --- Laughter in art --- Humour dans l'art --- Arts romains --- Rire dans l'art

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Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Hérica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second half of the first century BCE Roman poets, artists, and their audience became increasingly interested in describing, depicting, and visualizing the more sentimental aspects of amatory experience. During this period, we see two important and simultaneous developments: Latin love elegy crystallizes as a poetic genre, while a new style in Roman wall painting emerges. Valladares' book is the first to correlate these two phenomena properly, showing that they are deeply intertwined. Rather than postulating a direct correspondence between images and texts, she offers a series of mutually reinforcing readings of painting and poetry that ultimately locate the invention of a new romantic ideal within early imperial debates about domesticity and the role of citizens in Roman society.

Love in art. --- Love poetry, Latin --- Arts, Roman --- Roman arts --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives.

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Art patronage --- Arts --- Mécénat --- Arts, Roman --- 7.078.2 --- -Arts, Roman --- 871 --- Roman arts --- Arts patronage --- Business patronage of the arts --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of art --- Art and industry --- Kunstbescherming door particulieren: sponsoring; mecenaat --- Latijnse literatuur --- Arts, Roman. --- 871 Latijnse literatuur --- 7.078.2 Kunstbescherming door particulieren: sponsoring; mecenaat --- Mécénat --- 871 Latin literature --- Latin literature --- Art patronage - Rome

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War suffused Roman life to a degree unparalled in other ancient societies. Although the place of war in ancient Roman culture has been the subject of many studies, this book examines how Romans represented war, in both visual imagery and in literary accounts. Spanning a broad chronological range, from the mid-fourth century BC to the third century AD, the essays in this volume consider audience reception, the reconstruction of display contexts, as well as the language of images, which could be either explicit or allusive in representations of war. They also analyze the construction of the Romans' view of themselves, their past, and their future.

Art [Roman ] --- Art romain --- Guerre dans l'art --- Kunst [Romeinse ] --- Oorlog in de kunst --- Roman art --- Romeinse kunst --- War in art --- War in art. --- Arts and society --- Arts, Roman. --- Arts et société --- Arts romains --- Arts, Roman --- War in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- Arts et société --- Rome

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Arts, Greek --- Arts, Roman --- Children in art --- Children in literature --- Children --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- Childhood in art --- Roman arts --- Greek arts --- History and criticism