Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

List of contents

Introduction: the painting of painting in Ancient Rome; 1. Winckelmann and the cultural dynamics of painting; 2. Disrupting the frame; 3. The ethics and politics of art; 4. Transparent and opaque: medium and materiality on the Roman wall; 5. Paradigms, ensembles, and anachronisms; Epilogue: reflection and reflexivity.

About the author

Nathaniel B. Jones is Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St Louis. His research interests include painting, collecting practices, and art-historical thought in Greco-Roman antiquity. He earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University in 2013. His research, which centers on the artistic and visual culture of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC, and the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. He has published on topics such as the representation of the dead in Classical Greek vase painting and the collection and display of art in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, and the interrelationship of space and time in Roman narrative images.

Summary

In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. This richly illustrated book explores the social, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of this practice and will appeal to both classicists and art historians.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel B Jones, Nathaniel B. Jones, Nathaniel B. (Washington University Jones, JONES NATHANIEL B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108420129
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42012-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Art, Ancient World, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Painting & paintings, Classical history / classical civilisation, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, European history: the Romans, Paintings and painting