Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of material has not been adequately represented in archaeological research. The present volume addresses this oversight by examining the decorative use of material in Roman Italy between the Late Republic and Early Imperial period
In this dissertation, I investigate the depiction of luxury objects in Roman wall paintings as emble...
This research offers design practices and processes as an approach for exploring matters of making a...
Ancient artifacts such as statues, reliefs, and paintings gave tangible form to knowledge and abstra...
Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and ...
The aesthetic qualities of materials used for artefacts have rarely been considered, and aesthetics ...
Roman sculpture of the late republic and empire is characterized by wide-ranging practices of formal...
The material signature of the Roman period in Britain is undeniably distinctive, marked as it is not...
Two books, the "De Architectura" by Vitruvius and the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder, give ...
In this book everyday household objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Pompeian Insula del Menandr...
In this book everyday household objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Pompeian Insula del Menandr...
The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end o...
All art history involves inherent tensions between the materiality of the works of art - their roote...
In this book, the author uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investiga...
Houshold objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Insula del Menandro are used to examine decorative...
In this dissertation, I investigate the depiction of luxury objects in Roman wall paintings as emble...
This research offers design practices and processes as an approach for exploring matters of making a...
Ancient artifacts such as statues, reliefs, and paintings gave tangible form to knowledge and abstra...
Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and ...
The aesthetic qualities of materials used for artefacts have rarely been considered, and aesthetics ...
Roman sculpture of the late republic and empire is characterized by wide-ranging practices of formal...
The material signature of the Roman period in Britain is undeniably distinctive, marked as it is not...
Two books, the "De Architectura" by Vitruvius and the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder, give ...
In this book everyday household objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Pompeian Insula del Menandr...
In this book everyday household objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Pompeian Insula del Menandr...
The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end o...
All art history involves inherent tensions between the materiality of the works of art - their roote...
In this book, the author uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investiga...
Houshold objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Insula del Menandro are used to examine decorative...
In this dissertation, I investigate the depiction of luxury objects in Roman wall paintings as emble...
This research offers design practices and processes as an approach for exploring matters of making a...
Ancient artifacts such as statues, reliefs, and paintings gave tangible form to knowledge and abstra...