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Divine Interiors - Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries (Hardcover)
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Divine Interiors - Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries (Hardcover)
Series: Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
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Divine Interiors is an investigation into the decoration of Greek
and Roman temples with wall paintings. Mighty marble facades,
sculptures and paintings played an important role in relation to
these monuments. While the official temples, which were connected
to the city or state, usually had a simple but solemn appearance,
the more popular buildings were true multi-color expressions of
religiosity. Scenes from the life of the revered deity, supporters
and practitioners of the cult, or of plants and animals could carry
visitors of the shrines away to different worlds. It is also
striking to find in the vast Greco-Roman world that there are many
similarities between often widely separated temples. The wall
paintings were characterized by stylistic and taste changes, but
they had the same look everywhere. Besides using archeological
remains, this book also uses the texts of antiquity, whose
descriptions of the monuments provide additional information.
Amsterdam Archaeological Studies is a series devoted to the study
of past human societies from the prehistory up into modern times,
primarily based on the study of archaeological remains. The series
will include excavation reports of modern fieldwork; studies of
categories of material culture; and synthesising studies with
broader images of past societies, thereby contributing to the
theoretical and methodological debates in archaeology.
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