Roman Art, REPRINT - Softcover

Ramage, Nancy H.; Ramage, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131841076 ISBN 13: 9780131841079

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

This exceptionally well-illustrated text explores Roman art in the traditional historical manner -- with a focus on painting, sculpture, architecture, and minor arts. It assumes no prior acquaintance with the classical world, and explains the necessary linguistic, historical, religious, and political background needed to fully understand Roman art. In-depth information, historical photographs, drawings, engravings, and illustrations of architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings and decorative arts in all areas. Chronological presentation of material features: the Villanovan and Etruscan Forerunners 1000-200 BC.; the Roman Republic 200-27 BC; Augustus and the Imperial Idea 27 BC-AD 14; The Julio-Claudians AD 14-68; The Flavians: Savior to Despot AD 69-98; Trajan, Optimus Princeps AD 98-117; Hadrian and the Classical Revival AD 117-138; The Antonines AD 138-198; The Severans AD 193-235; The Soldier Emperors AD 235-284 AD; The Tetrarchs AD 284-312; Constantine AD 307-337 and the Aftermath.

About this title

About the Author:

NANCY H. RAMAGE is the Charles A. Dana Professor in the Humanities and the Arts at Ithaca College and recently received the Excellence in Teaching award at her institution. She has been a trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America and on the advisory board of Etruscan Studies, the American Journal of Archaeology, and Dig Magazine, and a member of the Royal Society of Arts in the U.K. She received her doctorate from Harvard University and has wide experience as a lecturer, writer, and museum consultant. She co-authored two books on material from the excavations at Sardis, one on Greek and Roman sculpture and one on Athenian pottery, and has written many articles on antiquity and its reception in the 18th century.

ANDREW RAMAGE is Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology at Cornell University. He is the Director of the Archaeology Program at Cornell, and Associate Director of the Harvard/Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis. A Harvard University Ph.D., he has written Lydian Houses and Architectural Terracottas (1978), Twenty-five Years of Discovery at Sardis with Nancy H. Ramage (1983), and King Croesus's Gold: Excavations at Sardis an the History of Gold Refining with P.T. Craddock (2000).

From the Back Cover:

Extensively revised and further enlarged, this is the third edition of an indispensable tool for understanding the painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of ancient Rome. Clear and comprehensive, it covers the 1300 years from the Villanovan and Etruscan forerunners of the Romans to the introduction of Christianity under the Emperor Constantine the Great. The new edition includes a discussion of archaeological ethics, including the issues of restoration and forgeries; the illegal import of antiquities; and the history of collecting. The text now covers more architectural monuments, both in the capital and the provinces; and discusses the art of each historical period, while also looking at history, myth, literature, and social customs. The clearly written text, incorporating the most up-to-date scholarship, is complemented by numerous new photographs and diagrams.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131841076
• ISBN 13: 9780131841079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3