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ELSNER, J., - Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity.
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| Schrijver: | ELSNER, J., |
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| Titel: | Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. |
| ISBN: | 9780521453547 |
| Uitgever: | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1995. XXVI,375p. ills.(B&W as well as a few full colour phtographs). Original black cloth with dust wrappers. Dus wrappers near tail spine slightly wrinkled. |
| Bijzonderheid: | 'Like many art historians before him, Elsner sets out in this book to explain the well-known stylistic transformationof art in the Roman Empire from an essentially naturalistic and illusionistic style in the first century to an increasingly abstra... |
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€ 195,00
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| Meer info | he enlivens Philostratos’ often tedious rhetorical exercises by discovering passages that expose the complexity involved in viewing illusionistic paintings (…). More problematical, however, are his commentaries on how understanding the conceptual framework with which ancient views approached art helps us to understand what particular works of art we’re really all about. (…) The broad range of scholarship, both archaeological and literary, that E. Brings to bear on this topic is impressive, but his text is often marred, it seems to me, by an unfortunate tendency to attribute simplistic views to other art historians in the roman field. (…) Obviously this is not simply another positives study of the stylistic development of Roman art. It is an often original, frequently stimulating, and altogether quite unusual book.’ (J.J. POLLITTin The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1997, pp.265-266). |
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