The frame in classical art : a cultural history / edited by Verity Platt and Michael Squire.
"The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not...
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Table of Contents:
- I. Framing the Frame: 1. Framing the visual in Greek and Roman antiquity: an introduction / Verity Platt and Michael Squire
- II. Framing Pictorial Space: Introduction / Verity Platt ; 2. The frames of Greek painted pottery / Clemente Marconi ; 3. Unframing the representation: the frontal face in Athenian vase painting / Guy Hedreen ; 4. Framing the Roman 'still life': Campanian wall painting and the frames of make-believe / Michael Squire
- III. Framing Bodies: Introduction / Michael Squire ; 5. Framing Archaic Greek sculpture: figure, ornament and script / Nikolaus Dietrich ; 6. Framing and social identity in Roman portrait statues / Jennifer Trimble ; 7. Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi / Verity Platt
- IV. Framing the Sacred: Introduction / Verity Platt ; 8. Framing divine bodies in Greek art / Milette Gaifman ; 9. How the Gauls broke the frame: the political and theological impact of taking battle scenes off Greek temples / Robin Osborne ; 10. Visual ontologies: style, archaism and framing in the construction of the sacred in the western tradition Jaś Elsner
- V. Framing Texts: Introduction / Michael Squire ; 11. Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy / Courtney Roby ; 12. Writing, reading, and seeing between the lines: framing late-antique inscriptions as texts and images / Sean V. Leatherbury ; 13. Envoi: framing 'antiquity' / Rebecca Zorach.