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Visual histories of the classical world : essays in honour of R.R.R. Smith

Title: Visual histories of the classical world : essays in honour of R.R.R. Smith / edited by Catherine M. Draycott, Rubina Raja, Katherine Welch, and William T. Wootton.
Publication: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

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xlii, 548 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm

Summary

Professor R.R.R. Smith is one of the foremost scholars in the study of Classical art, or more broadly, ?visual culture?, pioneering research that examines not only the details of images and objects themselves, but also their contexts and underlying conceptual frameworks. Key to his approach is a focus on social identity: by exploring the people who commissioned, produced, and consumed ancient art, he has offered important insights into what this can tell us about how people lived, and how they perceived themselves and were seen by others.00This volume, produced on the occasion of R.R.R. Smith?s 65th birthday, draws together essays from a distinguished group of researchers who have been inspired by Smith?s work and its value for reconstructing ancient social and cultural history. The papers gathered here consider various aspects of art and architecture in the classical world, engaging directly with R.R.R. Smith?s own research, and at the same time celebrating his enormous contribution to scholarship.

Series Statement

Studies in classical archaeology ; volume 4

Uniform Title

Studies in classical archaeology (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 4.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Visual histories : visual remains and histories of the classical world : papers in honour of R.R.R. Smith / Catherine M. Draycott, Rubina Raja and Will Wootton -- Bibliography of R.R.R. Smith -- Bert Smith as a scholar and a teacher by his first student / Katherine E. Welch -- Approaches, methods and materials -- A world of choice : Taking archaic Greek diversity seriously/ Robin Osborne -- Art history and Achaemenid history : Or, what you can get out of the back end of a bull / Catherine M. Draycott -- What is the value of images? On the significance of time spent looking at classical art / Caspar Meyer -- Ancient Greek artists and texts : loss and re-creation / Peter Stewart -- Two new lekythoi and two 'ghosts' / Thomas Mannack -- A short history of the depiction of plaster casts in the scholarly literature on ancient sculpture / Rune Frederiksen -- Royal representations -- The lion pit and other ambiguous violence against statues at Iron-Age Zincirli / Christoph Bachhuber -- Alexander's hearse and the Alexander Sarcophagus : Power politics and commemoration in a changing world / Stephan Faust -- An ambiguous identification : The diorite statue in diaphanous drapery from Canopus / Emma Libonati -- A cast, a bird, and a queen (?) / Milena Melfi -- Reconstructing Hellenistic imagery -- Portrait statues in the city Eleusinion in Athens / Sheila Dillon -- Apollo's children : Five statues from Delphi / Olympia Boubou -- Seeing the invisible / John Ma -- A puzzling pachyderm / Kenneth Lapatin -- Roman imperial representations -- Writing histories from Roman imperial portraiture : The case of the Julio-Claudian princes / Katharina Lorenz -- Terracotta, antiquarianism, and the 'archaic revival' of early Augustan Rome / Chris Hallett -- Zum Bildnis des Kaisers Claudius in Braunschweig / Klaus Fittschen -- Neropolis / Katherine Welch -- Zu einer neuen Bildnisbüste des Kaisers Domitian in Toledo / Paul Zanker -- Social and cultural identities in sculpture -- Minding the gap : Issues of transmission and cultural translation in Graeco-Roman art / Björn C. Ewald -- The statue monument of C. Billienus in the Stoa of Antigonos Gonatas on Delos / Mantha Zarmakoupi -- Simulacra gentium [Africanarum] / Ben Russell -- Stacking aesthetics in the Syrian desert : Displaying Palmyrene sculpture in the public and funerary sphere / Rubina Raja -- Constructed cities -- Notes on the origins and early development of the 'Agora of the Kerameikos' / Andrew Stewart -- The res gestae of Q. Haterius Q. L. Tychicus, redemptor -- Eva Margareta Steinby -- Herodes Atticus in Rome : The Triopion reconsidered / Barbara E. Borg -- Street plaques (and other signs) at Ostia / Janet DeLaine -- Roman domestic decor(um) -- Fictive gardens and family identity in the house of Neptune and Amphitrite / Maryl B. Gensheimer -- More than one way to skin a cat? A Roman mosaic from the House of the Cryptoporticus, Carthage / Will Wootton -- Reading memorial art -- The banquet scene at Kazanluk : A feast of speculation / Jane Masséglia -- 'An officer and a gentleman' : The stele of Aristokydes son of Xenokles, a Keian in Demetrias / Maria Stamatopoulou -- Public profiles and mediated selfies in ancient Macedonia : The gravestone' Facebook / Myrina Kalaitzi -- Some observations on Dionysiac sarcophagi / Jaś Elsner -- Aphrodisias and Aphrodisians -- Myon, a true ktistes : A new inscription from Aphrodisias and its context / Angelos Chaniotis -- The cemetery of Bingeç (Plarasa) Christopher Ratté -- Earthquakes at Aphrodisias / Andrew Wilson -- Reconsidering the Sculptor's Workshop at Aphrodisias / Julie van Voorhis -- Another statue in context : Rhodopaios of Aphrodisas / Julia Lenaghan -- Looking at Late Antiquity -- The use of statuary in late antique North Africa and its social and economic significance : An overview / Anna Leone -- Statues of men, men as statues : Distancing the body from its portrait statue in Late Antiquity / Esen Ogus.

ISBN

9782503576329
250357632X

LCCN

2019440598

OCLC

on1079223034
1079223034
SCSB-9358794

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library