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The Language of Images in Roman Art, Paperback / softback Book

The Language of Images in Roman Art Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This book, first published in 2004, develops a theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art.

By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and the ideological messages contained within.

The history of Roman art traditionally followed the model of a sequence of stylistic phases affecting the works of their era in the manner of a uniform Zeitgeist.

By contrast, the author shows different stylistic forms being used for different themes and messages.

The reception of Greek models, a key phenomenon of Roman art, thus appear in a new light.

The formulations of specific messages are established from Greek art types of different eras serving to express Roman ideological values: classical forms for the grandeur of the state, Hellenistic forms for the struggling effort of warfare.

In this way a conceptual and comprehensible pictorial language arose, uniting the multicultural population of the Roman state.

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