Ancient Rome; Art, Architecture, and History ,9780892366569

Ancient Rome; Art, Architecture, and History

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ISBN13: 9780892366569
ISBN10: 0892366567
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-05-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary

Rome continues to be the monumental expression of a legend. It is the eternal city where all roads of the ancient world converged, and through the millennia has been the model for the very concept of a universal empire. Through art, architecture, and urban planning, the empire expanded with an exceptional synthesis of technology, politics, law, and propaganda, conquering Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East. Accompanied by masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and painting and the words of illustrious figures, Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture, and History follows the arc of the city and its civilization from their beginnings to their height and decline. Included are discussions of the emperor Augustus; the Julio-Claudian dynasty; the ill-fated town of Pompeii; the architecture and planning of the metropolis; the art and architecture of the provinces of Europe and North Africa; and the fall of the Western Empire and the establishment of the Byzantine Empire as the heir of Rome.

Author Biography


Ada Gabucci is the editor of the magisterial study The Colosseum, also from Getty Publications.

Table of Contents

Prologue
The Roman Republic Begins to Assert Itself
6(2)
Toward an Empire
8(4)
The Empire's Beginnings and Establishment
The Pax Augusta: Ideology and Propaganda
12(2)
The Augustan Style
14(2)
A Portrait of Augustus
16(2)
The Ara Pacis
18(2)
Artistic Craftwork
20(2)
Livia's Villa
22(2)
The Provinces: Narbonesis Gaul
24(2)
Portraits of the Julio-Claudian Family
26(2)
Nero and the Domus Aurea
28(2)
The Flavian Dynasty: A Turning Point for the Principate
30(2)
Flavian Art
32(2)
Pompeii
34(2)
Styles of Pompeii
36(2)
The Arch of Titus and the Historic Roman Relief
38(2)
Bread and Circuses
40(2)
The Colosseum
42(4)
The Height of the Empire: From Trajan to the Antonines
Trajan the Optimus Princeps
46(2)
The Trajan Forum and Market
48(2)
The Provinces: Hispania
50(2)
Hadrian's Villa
52(2)
Hadrian and Antinous
54(2)
Urban and Architectural Development
56(2)
Palmyra
58(2)
The Eastern Rites: Isis
60(2)
Marble Funeral Monuments and Sarcophagi
62(2)
Mosaics and Stuccowork
64(2)
A Golden Age of Justice and Well-being
66(2)
The Antonine Column
68(2)
Marcus Aurelius
70(2)
A Turning Point during the Reign of Commodus
72(2)
The Portraits of Fayyum
74(4)
Crisis in the Empire: The From the Severans to the Tetrarchy
A Turning Point for the Military
78(2)
Lepcis Magna
80(2)
Sculpture in Rome and Africa
82(2)
Portraits and Sarcophagi
84(2)
The Catacombs
86(2)
The Baths of Caracalla
88(2)
Invasions and Disorder
90(2)
Rome as Fortress: The Aurelian Walls
92(2)
The Tetrarchy: Toward a New Peace
94(2)
The Baths of Diocletian
96(2)
Diocletian's Reforms
98(4)
The Fall of the Empire: Epilogue to an Ancient World
The Christian Empire
102(2)
The Arch of Constantine
104(2)
Treveri
106(2)
Marble Inlay and Mosaics
108(2)
Piazza Armerina
110(2)
The Mausoleum of Constantina
112(2)
Aquileia
114(2)
The Sacred and Profane on Sarcophagi
116(2)
Diptychs
118(2)
Theodosius and the Suppression of Pagan Worship
120(2)
The Fall of the Western Empire
122(2)
Constantinople and the Triumph of Christian Art
124(2)
Justinian and the Byzantine Empire
126(2)
Ravenna
128(4)
The Roman Empire under Trajan (A.D. 98-117)
132(2)
Fourth-Century Rome
134(2)
Index of Places 136(4)
Index of Names 140

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