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Title The afterlife of Greek and Roman sculpture : late antique responses and practices / Troels Myrup Kristensen and Lea Stirling, editors.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps
Note "This book developed out of two seminars held in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University on 26 September 2008 and 25 March 2011."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary For centuries, statuary decor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape. Further, changing religious practices cast pagan sculpture in a threatening light. Statuary production ceased, and extant statuary was either harvested for use in construction or abandoned in place. The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture is the first volume to approach systematically the antique destruction and reuse of statuary, investigating key responses to statuary across most regions of the Roman world. The volume opens with a discussion of the complexity of the archaeological record and a preliminary chronology of the fate of statues across both the eastern and western imperial landscape. Contributors to the volume address questions of definition, identification, and interpretation for particular treatments of statuary, including metal statuary and the systematic reuse of villa materials.
Contents Practices of Deposition and Reuse -- Metal Sculpture from Roman Britain: Scraps but Not Always Scrap / Ben Croxford -- Sculptural Deposition and Lime Kilns at Roman Villas in Italy and the Western Provinces in Late Antiquity / Beth Munro -- "Christ-Loving Antioch Became Desolate": Sculpture, Earthquakes, and Late Antique Urban Life / Troels Myrup Kristensen -- Regional Perspectives -- Old Habits Die Hard: A Group of Mythological Statuettes from Sagalassos and the Afterlife of Sculpture in Asia Minor / Ine Jacobs -- The Reuse of Ancient Sculpture in the Urban Spaces of Late Antique Athens / Nadin Burkhardt -- Crosses, Noses, Walls, and Wells: Christianity and the Fate of Sculpture in Late Antique Corinth / Amelia R. Brown -- The Reuse of Funerary Statues in Late Antique Prestige Buildings at Ostia / Cristina Muter -- Germans, Christians, and Rituals of Closure: Agents of Cult Image Destruction in Roman Germany / Philip Kiernan -- The Fate of Classical Statues in Late Antique and Byzantine Sicily: The Cases of Catania and Agrigento / Denis Sami -- The Fate of Sculpture on the Lower Danube in Late Antiquity: Preliminary Observations / Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu -- Grand Narratives -- Shifting Use of a Genre: A Comparison of Statuary Décor in Homes and Baths of the Late Roman West / Lea Stirling -- The Disappearing Imperial Statue: Toward a Social Approach / Benjamin Anderson -- The Sunset of 3D / Paolo Liverani -- Travelers' Accounts of Roman Statuary in the Near East and North Africa: From Limbo and Destruction to Museum Heaven / Michael Greenhalgh.
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Subject Sculpture, Classical -- Appreciation -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Altered sculptures -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Sculpture materials -- Recycling -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Classical antiquities -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
ART -- History -- Ancient & Classical.
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
HISTORY -- General.
Altered sculptures
Classical antiquities -- Destruction and pillage
Sculpture, Classical -- Appreciation
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Added Author Kristensen, Troels Myrup, editor.
Stirling, Lea Margaret, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9780472119691 0472119699 (DLC) 2016012907 (OCoLC)944160418
ISBN 9780472121823 (electronic bk.)
0472121820 (electronic bk.)
9780472119691
0472119699
Standard No. 40026274787
10.3998/mpub.8824429