Full Description
Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic, social, and religious identities through specific signs, symbols, and forms, and through the emulation of state-sanctioned art.
This volume focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions of iconographic analysis and visual semiotics that have framed the modern study of these images. Among other subjects, essays touch on iconography and style in republican and early imperial art, public sculpture and social practice in the Roman Empire, coin iconography, funerary imagery, imagery in ritual use, and images and interpretation of Africans in Roman art.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography is an important reference work for both the communicative value of images in the Roman world and the tradition of iconographical analysis.
Contents
Introduction
Lea K. Cline and Nathan T. Elkins
Method and Theory
1. The Creation of an Image
Annette Haug
2. Theoretical Approaches to Roman Imagery and Iconography
Clare Rowan
3. Relationship between Image and Text
Michael Squire
4. Iconography and Archaeology
Elizabeth Marlowe
5. Image and Authority
Stephan Faust
6. Iconography of the Non-iconic
Anna Anguissola
Image and Semantics
7. Iconography and Style in Republican and Early Imperial Art
Dominik Maschek
8. Iconography and Style in the Late Roman Empire
Susanna McFadden
9. Iconography and Style between Rome and the Provinces
Vanessa Rousseau and Sarah Lepinski
Image and Social Practice/Image and Context
10. Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Republic
Riccardo DiCesare
11. Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire
Elizabeth Wolfram-Thill
12. Iconography and Social Practice in the Domestic Sphere
Silvana Costa
13. Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Republic
Bernhard Woytek
14. Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Empire
Fleur Kemmers
15. Gems, Cameos, and Social Practice
Jörn Lang
16. Glass, Pottery, and Social Practice
Manuel Flecker
17. Images and Interpretation of 'the Other' in Roman Social Practice
Lisa Trentin
18. Images and Interpretation of Africans in Roman Art and Social Practice
Sinclair Bell
19. Iconography of Early Christian Roman Art
Sean Leatherbury
Imagery in Ritual Use
20. Religion and Iconography
Katherine Rask
21. Funerary Imagery and Iconography
Regina Gee
22. Judaism and Christianity
Matthew Grey and Mark Ellison
