Ellen Perry

The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 2005, this book examines Roman strategies for the appropriation of the Greek visual culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780521283977
• ISBN-10: 0521283973
• Artikelnr.: 33868744

Autorenporträt

Ellen Perry is assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she is a scholar of Roman art and has contributed to Classical Philology and Hesperia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a critical time in the study of Roman artistic imitation
1. Decorum and tradition: the beginnings of a theoretical apparatus
2. Decorum and patron: the functions of art
3. The marginalization of innovation: Kopienkritik and the construct of the free copy
4. The strategy of eclecticism
5. Phantasia: the artist's vision as model.