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1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index. |
| Contents |
Findspots, functions, and the burden of proof: some questions of methodology -- Late antique villas in southwest Gaul and their sculptural collections -- Issues of style, chronology, and origins -- Paideia and the world of Ausonius of Bordeaux: the social environment of late mythological statuary -- Learned collectors across the empire -- Statuary, paideia, and collecting: conclusions. |
| Summary |
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan and Christian alike, was fundamental in shaping their artistic taste while demonstrating how that taste was considered an important marker of status. Surveying collections across the empire, Stirling examines different ways that sculptural collections expressed not only the wealth but the identity of their aristocratic owners. The majority of statues in late antique homes were heirlooms and antiques. Mythological statuary, which would be interpreted in varying degrees of complexity, favored themes reflecting aristocratic pastimes such as dining and hunting. The Learned Collector investigates the manufacture of these distinctive statuettes in the later fourth century, the reasons for their popularity, and their modes of display in Gaul and the empire. Although the destruction of ancient artwork looms large in the common view of late antiquity, statuary of mythological figures continued to be displayed and manufactured into the early fifth century. Stirling surveys the sculptural decor of late antique villas across the empire to reveal the universal and regional trends in the late antique confluence of literary education, mythological references, aristocratic mores, and classicizing taste. Deftly combining art historical, archaeological, and literary evidence, this book will be important to classicists and art historians alike. Stirling's accessible writing style makes this an important work for scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Roman statues of this era. Lea M. Stirling is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Manitoba and holds a Canada Research Council Chair in Roman Archaeology. She co-directs excavations at the ancient city of Leptiminus, Tunisia. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mythology, Classical, in art.
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Mythology, Classical, in art. |
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Marble sculpture, Roman -- France, Southwest.
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Marble sculpture, Roman. |
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Southwest France. |
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Figurines -- France, Southwest.
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Figurines. |
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France, Southwest -- Antiquities, Roman.
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Classical antiquities. |
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Sculpture -- Collectors and collecting -- France, Southwest.
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Sculpture -- Collectors and collecting. |
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Sculpture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stirling, Lea Margaret. Learned collector. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005 9780472114337 (DLC) 2004019093 (OCoLC)56198786 |
| ISBN |
9780472025343 (electronic book) |
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0472025341 (electronic book) |
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1282556002 |
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9781282556003 |
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0472114336 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780472114337 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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