The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography

Bibliographic Data

ID9308037
EditorsLea K Cline (Illinois State University), Nathan T Elkins (0000-0002-2954-789X, Art History, Baylor University)
Year2021
Pages552
Publication date2021-12-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190850326.001.0001
OpenAlexW4200207415
Open LibraryOL33941417M
ISBN9780190850326
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Roman imagery and iconography are typically studied under the more general umbrella of Roman art and in broader, medium-specific studies. This handbook focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions of iconographic analysis and visual semiotics that have framed the modern study of these images. As such topics—or, more directly, the isolation of these topics from medium-specific or strictly temporal evaluations of Roman art—are uncommon in monograph-length studies, our goal is that this handbook will be an important reference for both the communicative value of images in the Roman world and the tradition of iconographical analysis. The chapters herein represent contributions from a number of leading and emerging authorities on Roman imagery and iconography from across the world, representing a variety of academic traditions and methods of image analysis

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Iconography · Linguistics · Roman art · Semiotics · Variety (cybernetics · Visual arts · Visual culture · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Artificial Intelligence · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Philosophy