One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art as much as geography can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda. Reuniting the 'chapters on art' with the rest of the Natural History, Sorcha Carey considers how the medium of the 'encyclopaedia' affects Pliny's presentation of art, and reveals how art is used to explore themes important to the work as a whole. Throughout, the author demonstrates that Pliny's 'chapters on art' are a profoundly Roman creation, offering an important insight into responses to art and culture under the early Roman empire.
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"Sorcha Carey goes beyond Isager's fundamental observations....The vision she uncovers is no simplistic one."--NECJ
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International Projects Co-ordinator at Liverpool Biennial, Sorcha Carey curates temporary artists' projects for the public realm. She previously held post-doctoral fellowships in the history of Classical Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the University of Cambridge.
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Despite the practice, from the Renaissance onwards, of recognizing famous literary figures from the ancient world in the surviving portraiture, no ancient portrait has ever been identified as Pliny the Elder. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ancestral masks, encyclopaedic account, ancestral portraits, garden paintings, radiate crown, artificial imitations, painted nature, painted garden, north portico Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Citroni Marchetti, Roman Nature, Gate of the Argentarii, House of Venus Marina, Nero's Colossus, Ann Arbor, House of the Tragic Poet, Julius Caesar, Mount Atlas, Roman Science, Alexander the Great, British Museum, Elder Pliny, Elsewhere Pliny, Pompey the Great, Porticus Vipsania, Res Gestac, The Gardens of Pompeii, Vespasian's Temple of Peace, Apollo Sauroktonos, House of the Fruit Orchard, Indeed Pliny New!
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Despite the practice, from the Renaissance onwards, of recognizing famous literary figures from the ancient world in the surviving portraiture, no ancient portrait has ever been identified as Pliny the Elder. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ancestral masks, encyclopaedic account, ancestral portraits, garden paintings, radiate crown, artificial imitations, painted nature, painted garden, north portico Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Citroni Marchetti, Roman Nature, Gate of the Argentarii, House of Venus Marina, Nero's Colossus, Ann Arbor, House of the Tragic Poet, Julius Caesar, Mount Atlas, Roman Science, Alexander the Great, British Museum, Elder Pliny, Elsewhere Pliny, Pompey the Great, Porticus Vipsania, Res Gestac, The Gardens of Pompeii, Vespasian's Temple of Peace, Apollo Sauroktonos, House of the Fruit Orchard, Indeed Pliny New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Pliny on Art and Society by Jacob Isager on 5 pages
- Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday by Doreen C. Innes on page 32, page 78, and Back Matter
- Histoire naturelle by Pline in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Still Life by American Federation Of Art on page 110, and Back Matter
- Art and Text in Roman Culture (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Jas Elsner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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