Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome
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Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome

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Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome

About this book

In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. Nathaniel B. Jones argues that the depiction of panel painting within mural ensembles functioned as a meta-pictorial reflection on the practice and status of painting itself. This phenomenon provides crucial visual evidence for both the reception of Greek culture and the interconnected ethical and aesthetic values of art in the Roman world. Roman meta-pictures, this book reveals, not only navigated social debates on the production and consumption of art, but also created space on the Roman wall for new modes of expression relating to pictorial genres, the role of medium in artistic practice, and the history of painting. Richly illustrated, the volume will be important for anyone interested in the social, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of artworks, in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Plates
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Introduction: The Painting of Painting in Ancient Rome
  13. 1 Winckelmann and the Cultural Dynamics of Painting
  14. 2 Disrupting the Frame
  15. 3 The Ethics and Politics of Art
  16. 4 Transparent and Opaque: Medium and Materiality on the Roman Wall
  17. Plates
  18. 5 Paradigms, Ensembles, and Anachronisms
  19. Epilogue: Reflection and Reflexivity
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index