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Roman landscapes : visions of nature and myth from Rome and Pompeii
- Title
- Roman landscapes : visions of nature and myth from Rome and Pompeii / edited by Jessica Powers ; with contributions by Bettina Bergmann, Thomas Fröhlich, Lynley J. McAlpine, Timothy M. O'Sullivan, Verity Platt.
- Publication
- San Antonio, Texas : San Antonio Museum of Art, [2023]
- [Place of distribution not identified] : Distributed in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdon by ACC Art Books.
- ©2023
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- Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 30 cm
- Summary
- Artists in Roman Italy created exquisite landscapes that reflect close ties with their environment, ranging from images of sunny seaside villas and tranquil country shrines to colorful views of Greece and Egypt. This groundbreaking volume explores the intimate connections between these works and ancient Romans' social, political and religious lives. Essays by six distinguished scholars discuss landscapes in a variety of media that decorated urban houses and tombs in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum and sumptuous coastal villas on the Bay of Naples. The catalog features more than 65 wall paintings, marble sculptures, mosaics, and costly drinking vessels in silver and cameo glass from 100 BC to AD 200, including rarely seen works from museums and archeological sites in Italy. Richly illustrated, this timely volume reflects shared human concerns about control and development of the land, about the competing demands of wealth and piety, and about preserving natural resources.00Exhibition: San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA (24.02-21.05.2023).
- Subject
- Landscapes in art > Exhibitions
- Myth in art > Exhibitions
- Art, Roman > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
- Art, Greco-Roman > Pompeii (Extinct city) > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
- Mural painting and decoration
- Mural painting and decoration, Roman
- Rome > Antiquities > Exhibitions
- Pompeii (Extinct city) > Antiquities > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii", on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art from February 24 to May 21, 2023"--Colophon.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Emily Ballew Neff -- Introduction: landscapes of the Roman imagination / Jessica Powers -- The Roman art of landscape / Bettina Bergmann -- Art, nature and the material divine in Roman landscape painting / Verity Platt -- Roman villas and landscapes of luxury / Lynley J. McAlpine -- Mythological landscapes in Roman painting / Timothy M. O'Sullivan -- Locus amoenus or Elysium? The landscape in the tomb / Thomas Fröhlich -- Catalogue / Lynley J. McAlpine & Jessica Powers.
- ISBN
- 188350225X
- 9781883502256
- LCCN
- 2022916924
- 99993753141
- OCLC
- on1349448957
- 1349448957
- SCSB-14518480
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries