Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste: The Purpose and Setting of Graeco-Roman Art in Italy and the Greek Imperial East

1981 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 506
Author(s):  
Hans P. Laubscher ◽  
Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Keyword(s):  
Roman Art ◽  
Greek Sculpture

Professor Wickhoff on Roman Art

1917 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Percy Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Roman Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Art ◽  
Greek Sculpture ◽  
Roman Age

Until recent years, Roman art had not seriously engaged the attention of the historians of art. It had been regarded as a sort of supplementary chapter to Greek art. In his great history of Greek sculpture Overbeck had inserted two or three chapters on the monuments of the Roman age. Collignon in France and Ernest Gardner in England in their works on Greek sculpture only briefly touched on the sculptural monuments of Rome.

Roman Sculpture

Classics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Atnally Conlin
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Greek Sculpture

Sculpture in the Roman world constitutes a broad category of diverse objects: from miniature votive statuettes deposited at rural sanctuaries to colossal portrait statues erected in apsidal niches of grand urban basilicas, from decorative plaques suspended between columns in Roman peristyle gardens to large-scale reliefs attached to conspicuous triumphal monuments. Perhaps more so than any other category of Roman material culture, sculpture has been extensively categorized and analyzed by generations of scholars. In contrast to the progressive development of styles identified (and often questioned) for Greek sculpture, Roman sculpture traditionally is divided along the same political subperiods as those used for Roman history (Republican, Augustan, Tetrarchic, etc.). Within these historical categories, two types of sculpture have been afforded primacy with respect to originality and aesthetic influence: portraiture and “historical” reliefs. More recently, scholarship has shifted away from the single-monument, typological-, or historical-based analysis to explore questions of display, patronage, production, distribution, regional divergences, gender and sexuality, reception, and socioreligious significance. Unless otherwise noted, general textbooks on Roman art are not part of this article.

Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Furtwangler ◽  
Eugenie Strong
Keyword(s):  
Greek Sculpture
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