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OverviewLate Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural decoration, and luxury arts (silver plate, textiles, ivories), as well as in everyday objects such as tableware, lamps, and pilgrim vessels. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions, mingled with local elements, far beyond the traditional borders of the classical world. At the same time, foreign motifs, especially of Germanic and Sasanian origin, are attested in Roman territories. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions. The presentation of a wide range of relevant case studies chosen from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the vast scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of addressing such a complex historical question with a combination of different theoretical approaches. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fabio Guidetti , Katharina MeineckePublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books ISBN: 9781789254464ISBN 10: 1789254469 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 15 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of contents Introduction Fabio Guidetti and Katharina Meinecke I. Dynamics of provincial visual cultures in the late Roman empire 1. Becoming glocal! Glocalisation, the victorious charioteer from the villa of El Pomar (Hispania Baetica) and the emergence of a regional visual koiné in 4th-century Augusta Emerita (Hispania Lusitana) Rubén Montoya González 2. Clothing differentiation in a shared visual culture: Dress imagery in mosaic iconography Amy Place 3. Act locally, think globally: Late antique funerary painting from the territory of present-day Serbia Jelena Anđelković Grašar, Dragana Rogić and Emilija Nikolić 4. The emperors in the province: A study of the Tetrarchic images from the imperial cult chamber in Luxor Nicola Barbagli II. Iconography- or genre-related case studies 5. Images of the rider on horseback in the eastern Mediterranean in the 1st millennium AD Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom 6. The ‘child with grapes’ from Britain to Bahrain: Shared iconography, meaning and mobility on funerary monuments, AD 100–400 Lindsay R. Morehouse 7. Baptism and Roman gold-glasses: Salvation and social dynamics Monica Hellström 8. ‘First-generation diptychs’ and the reception of Theodosian court art Fabio Guidetti III. Connections with Roman visual culture in extra-Roman and post-Roman contexts 9. Buckles and bones: Central Asiatic influences and the making of post-Roman Gaul Carlo Ferrari 10. South Arabia in Late Antiquity: A melting pot of artistic ideas Sarah Japp 11. The mosaic pavement beneath the floor of al-Aqṣā mosque: A case study of late antique artistic koiné Michelina Di Cesare IV. Modes of transfer: iconographies, motifs, objects 12. Circulating images: Late Antiquity’s cross-cultural visual koiné Katharina Meinecke 13. Bracteates with Byzantine coin patterns along the Silk Road Guo Yunyan 14. Small worlds of long Late Antiquity: Global entanglements, trade diasporas and network theory Johannes Preiser-KapellerReviews...an excellent resource for case studies on the following themes: the local appropriation of late antique koine in particular regions/localities; the spread and diffusion of late antique iconographies (if in theory more than in practice); and the reception of late antique koine beyond the Mediterranean. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationFabio Guidatto obtained his Ph.D. in Art History in 2011 from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His post-doctoral career was based first in Pisa, then in London (Warburg Institute) and Berlin (TOPOI Excellence Cluster). His research interests focus on the cultural and intellectual history of the Roman empire and late antiquity, especially in the fields of the history of art, history of religion and history of science. Katharina Meinecke teaches in the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna where she specailises in Roman and Late Antique iconography, the Umayyad pictorial language and globalisation in material culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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