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Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans,
whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Herica
Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second half
of the first century BCE Roman poets, artists, and their audience
became increasingly interested in describing, depicting, and
visualizing the more sentimental aspects of amatory experience.
During this period, we see two important and simultaneous
developments: Latin love elegy crystallizes as a poetic genre,
while a new style in Roman wall painting emerges. Valladares' book
is the first to correlate these two phenomena properly, showing
that they are deeply intertwined. Rather than postulating a direct
correspondence between images and texts, she offers a series of
mutually reinforcing readings of painting and poetry that
ultimately locate the invention of a new romantic ideal within
early imperial debates about domesticity and the role of citizens
in Roman society.
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