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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionLea Cline and Nathan T. ElkinsMethod and Theory1 The Creation of an ImageAnnette Haug2 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 AuthorityStephan Faust 6 Iconography of the Non-iconicAnna Anguissola Image and Semantics7 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 LepinskiImage and Social Practice/Image and Context10 Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman RepublicRiccardo DiCesare11 Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman EmpireElizabeth Wolfram-Thill 12 Iconography and Social Practice in the Domestic Sphere Silvana Costa13 Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Republic Bernhard Woytek 14 Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Empire Fleur Kemmers15 Gems, Cameos, and Social Practice Jörn Lang16 Glass, Pottery, and Social Practice Manuel Flecker17 Images and Interpretation of 'the Other' in Roman Social Practice Lisa Trentin18 Images and Interpretation of Africans in Roman Art and Social Practice Sinclair Bell 19 Iconography of Early Christian Roman Art Sean LeatherburyImagery in Ritual Use20 Religion and Iconography Katherine Rask 21 Funerary Imagery and Iconography Regina Gee 22 Judaism and Christianity Matthew Grey and Mark Ellison
