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La production de sigillées africaines
En la primera parte de este volumen, dedicada a las producciones de sigillata africana en época alto-imperial, se analiza el origen de esta cerámica, africano pero con importantes influencias itálicas y galas, situando, a su vez, cronológica y geográficamente, los primeros talleres africanos. Aborda también la compleja cuestión del declive y desaparición de esta primera producción de sigillata africana, en la segunda mitad del siglo III, describiendo el proceso de degradación de la pasta y del barniz. Al mismo tiempo que la sigillata clara A entra en crisis, aparecen nuevos tipos de sigillata, A/D, A/C y C. Por esta razón, el autor rechaza la idea de la crisis del siglo III. La de...
The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Europe
The essays in this collection examine the life-histories of carefully chosen megalithic monuments, stelae and statue-menhirs, and rock art sites of various European and Mediterranean regions during the Iron Age and Roman and Medieval times. By focusing on the concrete interaction between people, monuments, and places, the volume offers an innovative outlook on a variety of debated issues. Prominent among these is the role of ancient remains in the creation, institutionalization, contestation, and negotiation of social identities and memories, as well as their relationship with political economy in early historic European societies.
In Africa et in Hispania
La presente obra es fruto de un proyecto de cooperación científica hispano-tunecino puesto en marcha en 2005 por la Université de Sousse (Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines) y la Universitat de Barcelona (CEIPAC) sobre la producción y el comercio de aceite africano en el Imperio romano..La producción y comercio de aceite africano han sido estudiadas por ambas partes de una forma interdisciplinar abarcando desde los estudios de carácter epigráfico hasta las excavaciones arqueológicas, haciendo a su vez especial atención en el análisis detallado de los mercados en los que estos productos fueron introducidos..Este libro representa una visión cruzada de África a Hispania y de Hispania a África fruto del intercambio de los datos obtenidos en una y otra parte del Mediterráneo, haciendo especial atención a la contribución económica de África en el conjunto del imperio romano.
Power and Pathos
For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on...
Shaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic - Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC–AD 700)
This book sheds some necessary light on local economies from the (late) Hellenistic to the Late Roman period. The concepts of regions and regionality are employed to explore the complexity of ancient economies and (ceramic) variability and change in Boeotia (Central Greece), largely on the basis of the survey data generated by the Boeotia Project.
Displacing Caravaggio
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggio’s attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.
Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World
The Hellenistic period—the nearly three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 B.C., and the suicide of the Egyptian queen Kleopatra VII (the famous "Cleopatra"), in 30 B.C.—is one of the most complex and exciting epochs of ancient Greek art. The unprecedented geographic sweep of Alexander's conquests changed the face of the ancient world forever, forging diverse cultural connections and exposing Greek artists to a host of new influences and artistic styles. This beautifully illustrated volume examines the rich diversity of art forms that arose through the patronage of the royal courts of the Hellenistic kingdoms, placing special emphasis on Pergamon, capital of the A...
