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Gerulata: The Lamps
What should a catalogue of archaeological material contain? This book is a comprehensive index of 210 lamps from the Roman fort of Gerulata (present-day Bratislava-Rusovce, Slovakia) and its adjoining civilian settlement. The lamps were excavated during the last 50 years from the houses, cemeteries, barracks and fortifications of this Roman outpost on the Limes Romanus and span almost three centuries from AD 80 to AD 350. For the first time, they are published in full and in color with detailed analysis of lamp types, workshop marks and discus scenes. Roman lamps were a distinctive form of interior lighting that burned liquid fuel seeped through a wick to create a controlled flame. Relief decorations have made them appealing objects of minor art in modern collections, but lamps were far more than that – with a distribution network spanning three continents, made by a multitude of producers and brands, with their religious imagery depicting forms of worship, and as symbols of study and learning, Roman lamps are an effective tool that can be used by the modern scholar to discover the ancient economy, culture, craft organization and Roman provincial life.
European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865
This publication is the Museum's descriptive catalogue of its 2,500 paintings, oil sketches, and finished pastels, each one illustrated and presented chronologically by national and regional school. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Anton Veit
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Crafting Textiles
New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work of Peter Collingwood, this publication explores aspects of these craft skills in the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval world through scientific, object-based analysis and 'research through making'. Chapters include the growth of patterned tablet weaving for trimming garments in prehistoric Central Europe; recently identified styles of headdress worn in the Roman Rhineland and pre-Islamic Egypt; Viki...
Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Trier. Das Erzbistum Trier 14: Die Trierer Erzbischöfe von 1623 bis 1802
Die Biographien dieses Bandes umreißen Leben und Wirken der letzten acht Erzbischöfe und Kurfürsten von Trier. Teilweise entstammten diese sehr unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten großen reichsfürstlichen Dynastien, teilweise dem regionalen Adel. Gemeinsam war ihnen, dass sie in ihrer Doppelrolle als geistliche Oberhirten und weltliche Regenten mit großen Herausforderungen konfrontiert waren. Dazu zählte der Dreißigjährige Krieg ebenso wie die Auseinandersetzung mit der Aufklärung und mit der Französischen Revolution, die Erzbistum und Kurstaat den Untergang brachte. Die Darstellung behandelt sowohl die Herkunft, Bildung und Persönlichkeit der Erzbischöfe als auch ihr Agieren auf so unterschiedlichen Gebieten wie dem Pfarrwesen, der Frömmigkeitspflege, der Justiz, der Kultur-, Bildungs-, Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Außenpolitik. Ihr Verhältnis zum Domkapitel wird ebenso beleuchtet wie das zum Adel, zu den Landständen und zur römischen Kurie sowie ihre Positionierung innerhalb der Reichskirche.
Inventing Luxembourg
The grand duchy of Luxembourg was created after the Napoleonic Wars, but at the time there was no 'nation' that identified with the emergent state. This book analyses how politicians, scholars and artists have initiated and contributed to nation-building processes in Luxembourg since the nineteenth century, processes that – as this book argues – are still ongoing. The focus rests on three types of representations of nationhood: a shared past, a common homeland and a national language. History was written so as to justify the country's political independence. Territorial borders shifted meaning, constantly repositioning the national community. The local dialect – initially considered German variant – was gradually transformed into the 'national language', Luxembourgish.
Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress
Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and...
