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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture - Art and Empire in the Natural History (Paperback, New edition)
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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture - Art and Empire in the Natural History (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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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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