Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers
new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and
meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have sought
to identify an indigenous style distinct from Greek art and in the
process have neglected the large body of Roman work that creatively
recycled Greek artworks. In this fresh assessment the author offers
instead a cultural history of the functions of the visual arts, the
messages that these images carried, and the values that they
affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire. The analysis
begins at the point at which the characteristic features of Roman
art started to emerge, when the Romans were exposed to Hellenistic
culture through their conquest of Greek lands in the third century
BCE. As a result, the values and social and political structure of
Roman society changed, as did the functions and characters of the
images it generated.
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