Life, Death and Representation - Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi

This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

About the author

Jas Elsner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK; Janet Huskinson, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ja Elsner (Editor), Jas Elsner (Editor), Huskinson (Editor), Huskinson (Editor), Janet Huskinson (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9783110202137
• ISBN: 978-3-11-020213-7
• No. of pages: 446
• Weight: 888 g
• Illustrations: 130 b/w ill.
• Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies; Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n.Chr.; Millennium Studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E.; Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies; Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n.Chr.; Millennium Studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E.; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Kunstgeschichte, Altertum, Japan, Antike, Rom, Archäologie einer Periode / Region, Römer, altes Rom, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Römisches Reich, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Antike (griechisch-römisch) / Rom (Staat, Reich), Rom (Staat, Reich), Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Begräbnissitten, Totenliturgie, Bestattung - Beerdigung - Begräbnis, Sarkophag; Römisches Reich /Kunst; Römisches Reich /Kultur; Römisches Reich /Gesellschaft; Relief; Roman Art; Roman Culture; Roman Society