The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography

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Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic, social, and religious identities through specific signs, symbols, and forms, and through the emulation of state-sanctioned art. This volume 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. Among other subjects, essays touch on iconography and style in republican and early imperial art, public sculpture and social practice in the Roman Empire, coin iconography, funerary imagery, imagery in ritual use, and images and interpretation of Africans in Roman art. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography is an important reference work for both the communicative value of images in the Roman world and the tradition of iconographical analysis. Contents Contributors Introduction • Lea K. Cline and Nathan T. Elkins PART I: METHOD AND THEORY 1. The Role of Images: Theoria and Exemplum • Annette Haug 2. Theoretical Approaches to Roman Imagery and Iconography • Clare Rowan 3. Word & Image • Michael Squire 4. Iconography and Archaeology • Elizabeth Marlowe 5. Image and Authority • Stephan Faust 6. Iconography of the Non-Iconic • Anna Anguissola PART II: IMAGE AND SEMANTICS 7. Iconography and Style in Republican and Early Imperial Art (200 BCE to 14 CE) • Dominik Maschek 8. Late Roman Iconography and Style • Susanna McFadden 9. Iconography and Imagery between Rome and the Provinces: A Case Study in Domestic Décor • Sarah Lepinski and Vanessa Rousseau PART III: IMAGE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE/IMAGE AND CONTEXT 10. Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Republic • Riccardo Di Cesare 11. Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire • Elizabeth Wolfram Thill 12. Iconography and Social Practice in the Domestic Sphere • Silvana Costa 13. Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Republic • Bernhard E. Woytek 14. Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Empire • Fleur Kemmers 15. Gems, Cameos, and Social Practice • Jörn Lang 16. Pottery, Glass, and the Pictorial Habit between Late Republic and Early Empire • Manuel Flecker 17. Images and Interpretation of “the Other” in Roman Social Practice • Lisa Trentin 18. Images and Interpretation of Africans in Roman Art and Social Practice • Sinclair W. Bell 19. The Iconography of Early Christian Roman Art • Sean V. Leatherbury PART IV: IMAGERY IN RITUAL USE 20. Iconography and Roman Religion • K. A. Rask 21. Funerary Imagery and Iconography • Regina Gee 22. Imagery in Jewish and Christian Ritual Settings • Matthew J. Grey and Mark D. Ellison Index