Freedman in Roman Art and Art History

Informationen zum Autor Lauren Hackworth Petersen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. A scholar of Roman art and architecture, she has published in Arethusa and The Art Bulletin, among other journals, and has received grants from the American Academy in Rome, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Klappentext In this study, Lauren Petersen critically investigates the notion of 'freedman art' in scholarship. Zusammenfassung Roman freed slaves! or freedmen! were prodigious patrons of art and architecture. In this study! Lauren Petersen critically investigates the notion of 'freedman art' in scholarship! dependent as it is on elite-authored texts that are filled with hyperbole and stereotypes of freedmen! such as the memorable fictional character Trimalchio! a boorish ex-slave in Petronius' Satyricon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the Roman freedman, 'freedman art', and Trimalchio; Public life and assimilation; 1. Rebuilding Pompeii: the Popidius family and the Temple of Isis; 2. The visibility of the Augustales in Pompeii; 3. Memory-making in the funerary realm: the tomb of the baker in Rome; Social integration: domus and family; 4. 'Freedman taste' in domus decoration; 5. To claim a domus: the house of the Caecilii at Pompeii; 6. Family and community at the Isola Sacra Necropolis: the Tomb of the Varii.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Petersen, Lauren Hackworth Petersen, PETERSEN LAUREN HACKWORTH
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107603592
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60359-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Klassik, altes Rom, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Roman style