Roman portraits in context [[electronic resource] /] / Jane Fejfer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782969803321
• Autore: Fejfer Jane
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-07322-2; 9786612073229; 3-11-173702-0; 3-11-020999-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (604 p.)
• Collana: Image & context ; ; v. 2
• Disciplina: 733/.5
• Soggetti: Art and society - Rome; Portrait sculpture - Italy - Rome; Portrait sculpture, Roman - Italy - Rome
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-553) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Part One: Public Honours and Private Expectations -- The so-called Roman Private Portrait -- What is a private Roman portrait? -- The honorific statue -- The origin of the honorific statue habit in the West -- The honorific inscription -- Honorific statues and social status: Who was represented? . . -- Dedicators: who set up the portraits? -- How to earn a portrait statue: personal expectations, public affirmation and audience responses -- Location: Where were the portraits set up? -- Ancestors for eternity -- Corporate Spaces, Houses, Villas and Tombs -- Corporate buildings -- Houses and villas -- Tomb -- Part Two: Modes of Representation -- The Material of Roman Portraits -- Painting -- Bronze and white marble -- Travertine, limestone and other local stones -- Gold, gilding, silver and ivory -- Coloured stones -- Miniatures -- Wax -- Other -- Statuary Body Types of Roman Men: All About Status? -- The full-figure statuary body types of Roman men. All about status? -- The toga -- Nudity -- The cuirass -- Abbreviated Formats -- The herm shaft -- The clipeus, or tondo -- The half-figure bust -- The freestanding bust -- Selves and Others: Ways of Expressing Identity in the Roman Male Portrait -- Greek or Roman? The origin of Roman Republican portrait styles -- The 8216;period-face ; and its impact -- The limitations and the possibilities of the period-face: variation in portrait styles -- The portraits of actors from the Sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis: a case study in diversity -- Part Three: The Empress and her Fellow Elite Women -- Roman Women in Public -- Dressing up a Roman Woman: statuary body types -- Head and hair -- Part Four: The Emperor -- Representing the Roman Emperor -- The Emperor in Rome: setting the scene -- The Emperor in Rome: close encounter -- Where were the free-standing statues of the emperor set up in Rome? -- Who set up the statues of the emperor in Rome? -- Statues for eternity? -- Statuary formats and statuary body types -- Defining the emperors head -- Commissioning of prototypes -- Market, replication and dissemination -- The emperor en route -- Epilogue Power, Honour, and Memory -- Appendix Addendum: Statuary Formats and Statuary Habits in Literary Sources -- The different habits of Saturninus statues
• Sommario/riassunto: Die höchste Ehre, die ein römischer Bürger sich erhoffen konnte, war eine Porträtstatue auf dem Forum seiner Stadt. Während der Kaiser und hohe Senatsbeamte regelmäßig mit solchen Statuen geehrt wurden, war die Konkurrenz unter den Wohltätern der Städte um diese Ehrung groß: ging es doch um nicht weniger, als die Erinnerung an den geehrten Patron und seine Familie über Generationen hin öffentlich zu verkünden und zu verewigen. Zwar gab es viele Möglichkeiten, sich eine Porträtstatue zu verdienen; die lokalen Honoratioren mussten jedoch oft bis nach ihrem Tod warten, bevor ihre Hoffnung darauf von der Öffentlichkeit erfüllt wurde. Jane Fejfer weist zum ersten Mal nach, wie grundsätzlich unser Verständnis und unsere Wahrnehmung von römischen Porträtstatuen erweitert werden, wenn wir folgende Faktoren einer systematischen Analyse unterziehen: den historischen Kontext, die ursprüngliche Aufstellung, die Entsehungsbedingungen von Herstellung und Stil - und den Sockel, auf dem in vielen Fällen ein Text angebracht war, der die suggestive Wirkung des Bildes durch eine eigene Rhetorik ergänzte.; The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of the patron and his family for generations. There were many ways to earn a portrait statue but such local figures often had to wait until they had passed away before the public finally fulfilled their expectations. It is argued in this book that our understanding and contemplation of a Roman portrait statue is greatly enriched, when we consider its wider historical context, its original setting, the circumstances of its production and style, and its base which, in many cases, bore a text that contributed to the rhetorical power of the image.

Dreams and visions : an interdisciplinary enquiry / / edited by Nancy van Deusen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785672003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-95117-3; 9786612951176; 90-474-4401-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 398 pages, 43 pages of plates) : illustrations
• Collana: Presenting the past, , 1875-2799 ; ; v. 2
• Altri autori (Persone): Van DeusenNancy (Nancy Elizabeth)
• Disciplina: 001.1
• Soggetti: Intellectual life - History; Middle Ages - Intellectual life; Philosophy, Medieval; Civilization, Medieval; Dreams - Philosophy; Visions - Philosophy; Dreams - History; Visions - History; Dreams in literature; Visions in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Dreams and visions / Nancy van Deusen -- Daniel the dreamer, Daniel the dream-reader / Meg Worley -- Cassiodorus and Theodoric : a vision of reviving falling cities / Birgitta Lindros Wohl -- The lament and Augustine : visions of disintegration and transformation / Nancy Van Deusen -- In the beginning : theories and images of creation in Northern Europe in the twelfth century / Conrad Rudolph -- Visions of verbum incartanum : Augustinian homiletics and English Christmas sermons, 900-1700 / Wendy Furman-Adams -- Plotinian image and the medieval representation of divinity / Ann R. Meyer -- St. Bonaventure's "Doctrine of illumination" : an artifact of modernity / Wendy Petersen Boring -- Dreams, visions, and nightmares ; in Islam : from the Prophet Mohammad to the fundamentalist mindset / Tamara Albertini -- The vision of heaven and knowledge in Castilian literature : from Alfonso X to Alfonso de la Torre / Ana M. Montero -- The Vulgate Grail / Michael Murrin -- A vision of poverty : remembering the Passion and the Christian ideal in the imagery of the Observant Franciscans / Virginia K. Henderson -- Dream and vision in Shakespeare's plays / David Bevington -- Dreams, visions, and delusions : madness in Shakespeare / J. Harold Ellens -- Vision in the eye of the beholder : translation or transformation / Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan -- Beyond three : Jung, anthropology and number / John N. Crossley -- A vision of dwarfs / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- The Dawes Act of 1887 : a dream of "civilizing the savages" that became a nightmare for Native Americans / Robert W. Hanning.
• Sommario/riassunto: Dreams and Visions have constituted an important topic and point of departure in the past; but also continue to play a present role in literature, political thought, economic theory, and in the arts. An essential historical topos, Dreams and Visions --the second in a series that projects past issues into the present--brings significant contributions from an interdisciplinary spectrum of standpoints in order to discover fresh insights. Perhaps this is the essence, in any case, of \'Vision\'--to discover new, fresh ways of conceptualizing a problem, topic, or historical enquiry, which is the goal of this volume. Contributors are Tamara Albertini, David Bevington, Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan, John N. Crossley, J. Harold Ellens, Wendy Furman-Adams, Robert W. Hanning, Virginia K. Henderson, Birgitta Lindros Wohl, Ann R. Meyer, Ana M. Montero, Michael Murrin, Wendy Petersen Boring, Conrad Rudolph, Nancy Van Deusen, Joanna Woods-Marsden, and Meg Worley.