The Idiom of Urban Display
Architectural Relief Sculpture in the Late Roman Villa of Chiragan (Haute-Garonne)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4737203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Elizabeth Beckmann, Sarah Beckmann (0000-0001-9504-1638, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 133-160 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3764/aja.124.1.0133 |
| OpenAlex | W2996373489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article presents an analytical study of the Late Antique sculptural relief program at the Roman villa of Chiragan (Martres-Tolosane, Haute-Garonne), which includes a series of mythological panels and a portrait in relief. Although Chiragan's reliefs have long been associated with Aphrodisian workshops, this study marks them as products of a local workshop, based on stylistic traits and recent scientific analyses of the marble. Using comparanda found in a series of Late Antique portraits from Chiragan, I date the reliefs to the later fourth or early fifth century CE. I also consider evidence for an honorific relief portrait at the villa that, together with the program of architectural relief sculpture, makes explicit reference to a distinctly urban visual rhetoric. In conclusion, I argue that Chiragan's reliefs actively court association with the urban sphere, which in turn suggests the increasing importance of the villa as a sociopolitical locus in the Late Roman West.1
Antique · Art · Art history · Portrait · Rhetoric · Sculpture · Visual arts · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
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