Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture - Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

List of contents

Introduction. 'Reuse, renovation, reiteration' Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland; 1. 'The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in Pompeii' Brenda Longfellow; 2. 'The Vigiles, dynastic succession and symbolic reappropriation in the Caserma dei Vigili at Ostia' Margaret L. Laird; 3. 'The epigraphy of appropriation: retrospective signatures of Greek sculptors in the Roman World' Catherine M. Keesling; 4. 'Gateways to the past: the Hadrianic architecture of procession in Pisidian Antioch and Athens' Adrian J. Ossi; 5. 'Visual literacy and reuse in the architecture of late Imperial Rome' Elisha Ann Dumser; 6. 'Urban transformations at Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: destruction or intentional preservation?' Esen Ogus; 7. 'Acquiring the antique in Byzantine Rome: the economics of architectural reuse at Santa Maria Antiqua' Gregor Kalas; 8. 'The afterlife of the amphitheater: cultural biography and social memory at Tarragona' Sheila Bond.

About the author

Diana Y. Ng is Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Dearborn. Her scholarship focuses on the public art and architecture of the Roman empire, especially in the Greek East. She has been published in the Journal of Roman Studies and Istanbuler Mitteilungen.Molly Swetnam-Burland is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, and is a scholar of Roman painting and sculpture. She is the author of Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture (Cambridge, 2015).

Summary

This book is for those interested in the Roman world. It treats the reuse of sculptural and architectural materials in new contexts, and explores the new associations that these 'out of place' materials created for their viewers. Materials were sometimes used to create new meanings, and sometimes for economic expedience.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY DIANA NG, Diana Y. Ng, Diana Y. (University of Michigan Ng
• Assisted by: Diana Y. Ng (Editor), Diana Y. (University of Michigan Ng (Editor), Ng Diana Y. (Editor), Molly Swetnam-Burland (Editor), Molly (College of William and Mary Swetnam-Burland (Editor), Swetnam-Burland Molly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108473897
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47389-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Archaeology by period / region, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, c 1000 to c 500 BCE (Italian period of Antiquity)