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Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae - Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla (Hardcover)
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Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae - Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla (Hardcover)
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Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical,
and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for
Romans' routines and relationships. Public baths were popularly
viewed as necessities of daily life and important social venues.
Given the importance of bathing to the Roman style of living, by
endowing eight magnificent baths (the so-called imperial thermae)
in the city of Rome between 25 BCE - 315 CE, imperial patrons
greatly enhanced their popular and political stature. Decoration
and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis
of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of these bathing
complexes, the Baths of Caracalla (inaugurated 216 CE). Maryl B.
Gensheimer takes an interdisciplinary approach to existing
archaeological data, textual and visual sources, and
anthropological theories in order to generate a new understanding
of the visual experience of the Baths of Caracalla and show how the
decoration played a critical role in advancing imperial agendas.
This reassessment of one of the most ambitious and sophisticated
examples of large-scale architectural patronage in Classical
antiquity examines the specific mechanisms through which an
imperial patron could use architectural decoration to emphasize his
own unique sociopolitical position relative to the thousands of
people who enjoyed his benefaction. The case studies addressed
herein-ranging from architectural to freestanding sculpture and
mosaic-demonstrate that sponsoring monumental baths was hardly an
act of altruism. Rather, even while they provided recreation for
elite and sub-altern Romans alike, such buildings were concerned
primarily with dynastic legitimacy and imperial largess. Decorative
programs articulated these themes by consistently drawing analogies
between the subjects of the decoration and the emperor who had paid
for it. The unified decorative program-and the messages of imperial
power therein-adroitly honored the emperor and consolidated his
reputation.
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