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"Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world, and demonstrates the ubiquity, fluidity, and power of relief as an artistic category, in both antiquity and modernity"--
List of contents
1. Ancient relief: terminology, medium, ontology Verity J. Platt; 2. Thinking through marble: early Attic Stelai as lithic technology Caspar Meyer and Chris Pelletieri; 3. The body in relief in archaic funerary sculpture Seth Estrin; 4. Relief in Athenian vase-painting: reflectivity, presence, and pictorial space Guy Hedreen; 5. Sculpture, relief, and the surrounding space: sculpture vs. relief, sculpture as relief Nikolaus Dietrich; 6. Seeing the past: Neo-Attic reliefs as sites of temporal and spatial contact Carolyn M. Laferrière; 7. Remedial relief Nathaniel B. Jones; 8. Foregrounding the background in Roman relief sculpture Jennifer Trimble; 9. Encrusted in ancestors: formal reflections on the funerary reliefs of Palmyra Nicola Barham; 10. Relief on and for the body in late antique numismatic jewelry Ashley Elizabeth Jones.
About the author
JAŚ ELSNER is Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford and Humfry Payne Senior Research fellow at Corpus Christi College, as well as being Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago. He has worked on Greek and Roman art of all periods, and especially on sculpture and reliefs.MILETTE GAIFMAN is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art at Yale University. She is the author of Aniconism in Greek Antiquity (2012) and The Art of Libation in Classical Athens (2018), and served as the Coeditor-in-Chief of the The Art Bulletin in 2020–2022.NATHANIEL B. JONES is Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St Louis. He has written on painting, collecting practices, and visual narratives in Greco-Roman antiquity, and is the author of Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome (Cambridge, 2019).
