Explores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of...Daugiau...
A visual exploration of the Buddhist stupa or reliquary mounds at one of ancient Indias most remarkable monuments at Amaravati. In this book, Jas Elsner presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia,...Daugiau...
This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Budd...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jan-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108484909)
Explores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of...Daugiau...
Serija: Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Dec-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192845955)
Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natur...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Feb-2021, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780861592340)
A volume exploring the ramifications of placing objects first and foremost in the comparative study of religions in late antiquity. This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200&;...Daugiau...
This is the first volume of collected papers to be devoted to the work of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world, and the most scintillating writer of Greek prose in the third century AD. The pa...Daugiau...
Serija: Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198861096)
As touchable objects, figurines have potential for a potent agency in relation to those who use them. This volume considers the figurine as a key conceptual and material problematic in the art history of antiquity through comparative juxtaposition an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Mar-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108473071)
Reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the problems of comparing the visual cultures of emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism,...Daugiau...
Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The chapters assess the strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the his...Daugiau...
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Mar-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199687558)
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers--leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and...Daugiau...
Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The essays assess the strengths and weaknesses of the comparative practice in the h...Daugiau...
The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found...Daugiau...
The Roman Empire during the reigns of Septimius Severus and his successors (AD 193225) enjoyed a remarkably rich and dynamic cultural life. It saw the consolidation of the movement known as the second sophistic, which had flourished during the secon...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107000711)
Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late ant...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Apr-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521827201)
This is the first volume of collected papers to be devoted to the work of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world, and the most scintillating writer of Greek prose in the third century ad. The co...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Oct-2007, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521859820)
Surveys the Severan periods many developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology and culture. The Roman Empire during the reigns of Septimius Severus and his successors (AD 193-225) enjoyed a remarkably rich and dynamic cu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2007, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691096773)
In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsne...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays ad...Daugiau...
