Pantomime Performance and Figured Scenes on Roman Sarcophagi

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23404239
AutoresJanet Huskinson (autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Páginas87-109
Fecha de publicación2008-11-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaNew directions in ancient pantomime (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232536.003.0004
OpenAlexW2480938354
ISBN9780199232536
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

This chapter explores the relationship between pantomime dance and funerary iconography in Roman society. The similarities between the art form of pantomime and sarcophagus art are identified in their shared activities of: interpreting well‐known subject‐matter from mythology to their viewers, inspiring reflection on the human condition through a visual display, and engaging with the human body in a fundamental way. The discussion opens with a critique of an approach which explores the relationship between the two by looking at individual pantomime motifs on Roman sarcophagi. Instead the author follows an alternative approach and considers pantomime and sarcophagus imagery in terms of their subjects, their presentation and their actors. The chapter concludes with a section that looks at the viewers of pantomime and sarcophagus imagery.

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Iconography · Literature · Mythology · Presentation (obstetrics) · Section (typography) · Subject matter · Visual arts · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Psychology