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In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints of the people who lived with them. In case studies of seventeen excavated houses, Clarke guides us through four centuries of Roman wall painting, mosaic, and stucco decoration, from the period of the "Four Styles" (100 B.C. to A.D. 79) to the mid- third century.The First Style Samnite House shows its debt to public architecture in its clear integration of public and private spaces. The Villa of Oplontis asserts the extravagant social and cultural climate of the Second Style. Gemlike Third-Style rooms from the House of Lucretius Fronto reflect the refinement and elegance of Augustan tastes. The Vettii brothers' social climbing helps explain the overburdened Fourth-Style decoration of their famous house. And evidence of remodelling leads Clarke to conclude that the House of Jupiter and Ganymede became a gay hotel in the second century. In his emphasis on social and spiritual dimensions, Clarke offers a contribution to Roman art and architectural history that is both original and accessible to the general reader. The book's superb photographs not only support the author's findings but help to preserve an ancient legacy that is fast succumbing to modern deterioration resulting from pollution and vandalism.
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"Extensively documented with well-chosen, good quality photographs, Clarke's book effectively surveys these representative examples from the Late Republic to the Late Empire, illustrating the shift in the agendas of decoration as well as in the patterns of the lives played out behind closed doors within these highly charged domestic interiors."Richard Brilliant, author ofVisual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan & Roman Art
"An enlightening and engaging walk through Roman cultural history. . . .This book will be essential to anyone interested in the classical past, in artistic ensembles, or in the experience of architecture."Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles
"Real experts in Roman painting are few. This book should be very welcome to Roman art historians and social historians wanting to present this material to their students."Eleanor Winsor Leach, author ofThe Rhetoric of Space
"An enlightening and engaging walk through Roman cultural history. . . .This book will be essential to anyone interested in the classical past, in artistic ensembles, or in the experience of architecture."Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles
"Real experts in Roman painting are few. This book should be very welcome to Roman art historians and social historians wanting to present this material to their students."Eleanor Winsor Leach, author ofThe Rhetoric of Space
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- VerlagUniversity of California Press
- Erscheinungsdatum1992
- ISBN 10 0520072677
- ISBN 13 9780520072671
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Artikel-Nr. Z13A-01998
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C. - A.D. 250. Ritual, Space, and Decoration.
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Antiquarian. University of California Press, Berkeley (.), 1991. XXVII,3,24,411p. Richly ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs and line drawings). Original grey gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps slightly worn. 'Much of the book's usefulness lies precisely in bringing together current thought on the subject. (.) His synoptic account of decorative styles in Chapter 2 forms a good short introduction to the four 'Pompeian' styles as well as to second- and third-century A.D. decorative schemes. By considering the paintings in their setting along with the floor treatments, C. at the same time gives the reader a welcome sense of the overall decorative effect, so often absent from straightforward account of Roman wall-painting. The bulk of the text presents 17 case-studies of decorative ensembles from Pompeii and Ostia arranged in six chronological groups divided according to decorative styles. All the houses are previously well-published, which allows C. to concentrate on specific aspects of the decorative schemes such as visual axes, spatial hierarchies, of programmatic organisation of painting and sculpture (.). Throughout the emphasis is on decoration, space and ritual in that order, with the four 'Pompeian' styles providing the chronological framework and well to the fore even in the post-Pompeian periods. The text is well-illustrated, with analytical plans and line drawings of decorative schemes as well as many new photographs. (.) As an attempt to place interior decoration in the wider context of Roman life, this book will no doubt find its way onto many shelves and into many student bibliographies.' (JANET DELAINE in The classical Review (New Series), 1993, pp.397-398). Antiquarian. Artikel-Nr. 50473
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