Pliny the Elder and the matter of memory: an encyclopaedic workshop
"The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder's Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny's encyclopaedia has enraptured the imaginations of its readers with anecdotes and narratives about the lives a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder's Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny's encyclopaedia has enraptured the imaginations of its readers with anecdotes and narratives about the lives and accomplishments of the great artists of the Greek past. This book explores the ways in which materials and artistic processes are constructed in Natural History. In doing so, this work reflects current developments in the study of Graeco-Roman art, where the scientific analysis of sculptural stones, pigments, and metal alloys, as well as a more detailed understanding of technologies and workshop practices, has imposed radical changes in the methods and theoretical models used to approach ancient artefacts. The argument considers the role of materials in discourses on Nature, as well as their semantics and the language used to account for artistic creation. Discussion of artistic techniques addresses the discovery of resources and technologies, and the discursive implications of creation and viewing. By focusing on particular passages and exemplary case studies, this book explores the ideological, moral, and intellectual preoccupations that guide Pliny's construction of materialities and human ingenuity in a period characterised by a rapidly-evolving economic landscape. The material and performative aspects of artistic, manual creation provided this early encyclopaedist with the fundaments for constructing and explaining his view of Rome's imperial mission and, more specifically, of his own strategies as a collector and recorder of 'all' the memorable facts of Nature. This book will be of significant interest to scholars of classical archaeology, Greek and Latin literature, social and economic history, and reception studies. Anna Anguissola teaches Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa, Italy. Her research focuses on urban development, the relationship between Greek and Roman art, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the Greek and Latin literary sources on the figural arts. She coordinates the University of Pisa's field research at Pompeii and at Hierapolis in Phrygia"-- |
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| adam_text | Contents List offigures Preface Editorial note and abbreviations Introduction vii ix xiii 1 PARTI The nature of art 11 1 Art and material 13 2 Art and ethics 31 3 Art and language 46 PART II The process of art 59 4 Discovering art 61 5 Making art 77 6 Looking at art 89
viii Figures 2.3 3.1 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 C.l C.2 Onyx cameo with the portrait of Titus as Jupiter, possibly reworked from a portrait of Nero. 7.9 x 6.5 cm. Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 14546 Statue of an athlete throwing the discus {Discobolus), considered a replica of a mid-fifth-century BCE bronze original by Myron. Marble. H 138 cm from the right shoulder to the upper side of the plinth. Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. no. 56039 Coin (sestertius) of Titus, 80 CE. Bronze. Diametre 35.5 mm, weight 25.45 gr. Reverse: mourning woman beside a palm tree beside Titus, with the inscription IVDAEA CAPTA, “Judaea conquered”. Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, acc. no. 92.005.14274 Small relief vessel, first-century CE. Agate. H 6 cm, diameter 5.7 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung, inv. no. X 22 Pompeii, House of the Painters at Work (IX 12, 9), room 12, decoration on the East wall, interrupted in 79 CE with preparatory drawings for Fourth-Style architectural views Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pietà, 14981499. Signature facieba(t) on the sash across the chest of the Virgin Mary. Città del Vaticano, Basilica di San Pietro Fresco panel in a wooden frame, depicting winged Cupids at work, from House V, 17-18 at Herculaneum. 102.5 x 94 cm. Herculaneum, Parco Archeologico, no. 77872 Fragment 15c of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome {Forma Urbis Romae), depicting a portion of Vespasian’s Templům Pacis. Rome, Museo della Civiltà Romana Statue of an athlete, first century CE. Basanite. H 110 cm. Castel Gandolfo, Musei Vaticani, Villa Pontificia,
Antiquarium, inv. no. 36405 Cup {skyphos), first half of the first century CE. Terracotta, lead-glazed ware. H 7.8 cm. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 29.100.77 40 50 64 70 82 84 93 97 107 108
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Contents List offigures Preface Editorial note and abbreviations Introduction vii ix xiii 1 PARTI The nature of art 11 1 Art and material 13 2 Art and ethics 31 3 Art and language 46 PART II The process of art 59 4 Discovering art 61 5 Making art 77 6 Looking at art 89
viii Figures 2.3 3.1 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 C.l C.2 Onyx cameo with the portrait of Titus as Jupiter, possibly reworked from a portrait of Nero. 7.9 x 6.5 cm. Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 14546 Statue of an athlete throwing the discus {Discobolus), considered a replica of a mid-fifth-century BCE bronze original by Myron. Marble. H 138 cm from the right shoulder to the upper side of the plinth. Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. no. 56039 Coin (sestertius) of Titus, 80 CE. Bronze. Diametre 35.5 mm, weight 25.45 gr. Reverse: mourning woman beside a palm tree beside Titus, with the inscription IVDAEA CAPTA, “Judaea conquered”. Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, acc. no. 92.005.14274 Small relief vessel, first-century CE. Agate. H 6 cm, diameter 5.7 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung, inv. no. X 22 Pompeii, House of the Painters at Work (IX 12, 9), room 12, decoration on the East wall, interrupted in 79 CE with preparatory drawings for Fourth-Style architectural views Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pietà, 14981499. Signature facieba(t) on the sash across the chest of the Virgin Mary. Città del Vaticano, Basilica di San Pietro Fresco panel in a wooden frame, depicting winged Cupids at work, from House V, 17-18 at Herculaneum. 102.5 x 94 cm. Herculaneum, Parco Archeologico, no. 77872 Fragment 15c of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome {Forma Urbis Romae), depicting a portion of Vespasian’s Templům Pacis. Rome, Museo della Civiltà Romana Statue of an athlete, first century CE. Basanite. H 110 cm. Castel Gandolfo, Musei Vaticani, Villa Pontificia,
Antiquarium, inv. no. 36405 Cup {skyphos), first half of the first century CE. Terracotta, lead-glazed ware. H 7.8 cm. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 29.100.77 40 50 64 70 82 84 93 97 107 108 |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Pliny the Elder and the matter of memory an encyclopaedic workshop Anna Anguissola |
| title_short | Pliny the Elder and the matter of memory |
| title_sort | pliny the elder and the matter of memory an encyclopaedic workshop |
| title_sub | an encyclopaedic workshop |
| topic | Plinius Secundus, Gaius 23-79 Naturalis historia (DE-588)4196444-5 gnd Kunst Motiv (DE-588)4128072-6 gnd |
| topic_facet | Plinius Secundus, Gaius 23-79 Naturalis historia Kunst Motiv |
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