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UNINA9910798800303321 |
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Prusac Marina |
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From face to face : recarving of Roman portraits and the late-antique portrait arts / / by Marina Prusac Ph.D., University of Oslo |
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Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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[Second revised edition] |
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1 online resource (381 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Monumenta Graeca et Romana, , 0169-8850 ; ; Volume 18 |
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Portrait sculpture, Roman |
Altered sculptures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Introduction : the history of sculpture reuse and related problems -- The reuse of sculpture and recarving of portraits -- Statistical analyses -- The 1st-2nd centuries CE and the damnatio memoriae portraits -- The Third century CE -- Late antiquity and the emergence of new visual expressions -- Recarving methods -- Classifications -- Social aspects -- Conclusions : oblivion and reinvention -- Summary -- Map with portrait provinces -- The Roman imperial succession until Justinian I -- Calalogue of recarved portraits -- Bibliography. |
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This book is based on an investigation of more than five hundred recarved portraits. It includes analyses of different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localised workshops. The different recarving methods have made it possible to suggest classifiable categories, which together underpin a hypothesis that the late-antique portrait style is a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time. The practice of portrait recarving emerged due to economic, political, religious and ideological factors, and was influenced by the cultural-historical changes of Late Antiquity. The conclusion gives a new understanding of how wide-ranging, culturally and politically encoded and comprehensive the practice of recarving was. |
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UNINA9910825498403321 |
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Ideas of Chinese gardens : Western accounts, 1300-1860 / / edited by Bianca Maria Rinaldi |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture |
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Gardens, Chinese - China - History |
Gardens - China - History |
Landscape architecture - China - History |
Aesthetics, Oriental |
Voyages and travels - History |
Travelers' writings - History |
China Description and travel History Sources |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254–1324) -- Chapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) -- Chapter 3. Álvaro Semedo (1585/1586–1658) -- Chapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618–72) -- Chapter 5. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) -- Chapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655–1728) -- Chapter 7. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) -- Chapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682–1746) -- Chapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702–68) -- Chapter 10. William Chambers (1723–96) -- Chapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) -- Chapter 12. John Bell (1691–1763) -- Chapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715–74) -- Chapter 14. François Bourgeois (1723–92) -- Chapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716–84) -- Chapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 18. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 19. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) -- Chapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737–1801) -- Chapter 21. André Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739–1801) -- Chapter 22. John Barrow (1764– |
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1848) -- Chapter 23. George Macartney (1737–1806) -- Chapter 24. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845) -- Chapter 25. Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767–1840) -- Chapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772–1852) -- Chapter 27. James Main (c. 1765–1846) -- Chapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795–1890) -- Chapter 29. Robert Fortune (1813–80) -- Chapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823–95) -- Chapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807–72) -- Chapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813–80) -- Chapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819–97) -- Chapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836–77) -- Chapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833–1913) -- Appendix. William Chambers (1723–96) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beginning in the sixteenth century, permanent interaction between Europe and China took form, and Jesuit missionaries and travelers recorded in letters and memoirs their admiration of Chinese gardens for their seeming naturalness. In the eighteenth century, European taste for chinoiserie reached its height, and informed observers of the Far East discovered that sophisticated and codified design principles lay behind the apparent simplicity of the Chinese garden. The widespread appreciation of the eighteenth century gave way to rejection in the nineteenth, a result of tensions over practical concerns such as trade imbalances and symbolized by the destruction of the imperial park of Yuanming yuan by a joint Anglo-French military expedition. In Ideas of Chinese Gardens, Bianca Maria Rinaldi has gathered an unparalleled collection of westerners' accounts, many freshly translated and all expertly annotated, as well as images that would have accompanied the texts as they circulated in Europe. Representing a great diversity of materials and literary genres, Rinaldi's book includes more than thirty-five sources that span centuries, countries, languages, occupational biases, and political aims. By providing unmediated firsthand accounts of the testimony of these travelers and expatriates, Rinaldi illustrates how the Chinese garden was progressively lifted out of the realm of fantasy into something that could be compared with, and have an impact on, European traditions. |
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