A History of Roman Art by Steven L. Tuck

Author:Steven L. Tuck
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781118885437
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Suggestions for Further Reading

Larry F. Ball, Domus Aurea and the Roman Architectural Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2003). This thorough study of Nero’s grand palace includes a needed comprehensive analysis of its masonry and design along with the abundant ancient literary evidence. Highlighting the revolutionary innovations of the Domus Aurea, Ball outlines their implications for the development of Roman concrete architecture.

John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.–A.D. 315 (University of California Press 2003). This splendidly illustrated book brings to life the art of ancient Romans of the sub-elite classes: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Chapters 3–9 are largely concerned with material from Pompeii and the Julio-Claudian period.

Nancy T. de Grummond and B.S. Ridgway, eds., From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context (University of California Press 2000). A significant collection of essays that explore important sculptural groups and the meanings of their display in the Roman world with emphasis on the sculptures from the imperial villa at Sperlonga.

Charles Brian Rose, Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period (Cambridge University Press 1997). Rose examines the production of Julio-Claudian dynastic imagery charting the public presentation of the first imperial dynasty in both Rome and across its provinces. Throughout, the levels of imperial control and local initiative involved in the designing of dynastic monuments are assessed demonstrating the tensions that provincial dedicators encountered during their production.

R.R.R. Smith, Aphrodisias V: The Marble Reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion (Philipp von Zabern 2012). Documents and analyzes the large repertoire of Julio-Claudian marble reliefs from the shrine dedicated to the worship of the imperial cult. Includes the mythological, ideological, and portrait reliefs that decorated the complex.

Francesca Tronchin, “Art, Nature, City, Country and the Problem of Villa Imitation.” Rivista di Studi Pompeiani 21: 63–75 (2011). Challenges the standard thinking that non-elite houses, like that of Octavius Quartio, were a banal imitation of upper-class villas and suggests alternate, more nuanced perspectives on these spaces that combined art, nature, and urban elements.

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