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The Roman Arch
Architecture, Politics, and the Commemoration of Victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome. The Roman Arch addresses this gap by focussing on the formative period of the freestanding Roman arches, known as fornices, and the socio-political contexts that facilitated their beginnings during the early years of the Middle Republic. Drawing on the fields of archaeology, classics, art history, anthropology, and the cognitive sciences, Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta uses the arch as a diagnostic tool to assess widespread changes in the functions and meanings of architecture in ancient Rome. Kontokosta shows significant links between the first arches and key Roman generals who celebrated military victories in Spain at the end of the Second Punic War, arguing that the uniquely ad hoc system of granting Roman military honors for victories during this period of rapid territorial expansion explains why the arch can be viewed as an alternative form of victory monument for those who were not granted the official ceremony of the triumph in Rome. By investigating the adoption of the freestanding arch as a symbol of military victory by Rome's first emperor, Augustus, Kontokosta demonstrates that collective Roman memories linking the fornix to the Middle Republic were critical to Augustan patronage. While the triumph was curtailed in the late first century BCE, the arch became an accessible proxy for celebrating military victory in Augustan Rome. Larger, more lavish Augustan arches expanded upon the old fornices of the Republic, creating a new and innovative imperial form incorporating triple bays, relief sculpture, and elaborate attic statuary. Hereafter, with their enduring ties to Rome's revered first emperor, these arches would be eagerly replicated throughout the Roman Empire.
Del 6 - Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture
Roman Sculpture in Context
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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This volume tackles a pressing issue in Roman art history: that many sculptures conventionally used in our scholarship and teaching lack adequate information about their find locations. Questions of context are complex, and any theoretical and methodological reframing of Roman sculpture demands academic transparency. This volume is dedicated to privileging content and context over traditions of style and aesthetics. Through case studies, the chapters illustrate multivariate ways to contextualize ancient objects. The authors encourage Roman art historians to look beyond conventional interpretations; to reclaim from the study of Greek sculpture the Roman originals that are too often relegated to discussions of "copies" and "models"; to consider the multiple, dynamic, and shifting contexts that one sculpture could experience over the centuries of its display; and to recognize that post-antique receptions can also offer insight into interpretations of ancient viewers. The collected topics were originally presented in three conference sessions: "Grounding Roman Sculpture" (Archaeological Institute of America, 2019); "Ancient Sculpture in Context" (College Art Association, 2017); and "Ancient Sculpture in Context II: Reception" (College Art Association, 2019).