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An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four
centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within
and beyond Rome’s ever-changing political boundaries Â
Roman art and architecture is typically understood as being bound
in some ways to a political event or as a series of aesthetic
choices and experiences stemming from a center in Rome itself.
Moving beyond the misleading catchall label “Roman,” John North
Hopkins aims to untangle the many peoples whose diverse cultures
and traditions contributed to Rome’s visual culture over a
four-hundred-year time span across the first millennium BCE.
 Hopkins carefully reconsiders some of the period’s most
iconic works by way of the many practices and peoples bound up with
them. Some of these include the extraordinary and complex effort to
build the Temple of Jupiter; the creative actions and diverse
encounters tied to luxury objects like the Ficoroni Cista; and the
important meanings held by sacred temple sculpture and votive
offerings through their making and subsequent practices of
devotion. Â A key purpose of this book is to question an idea
of Rome that has focused on elite production and the textual
record; Hopkins instead calls attention to the lesser-known—often
silenced—actors who were integral players. The result is a deep
understanding of a diverse and historically rich Italic and
Mediterranean world, as well as the myriad cultures, communities,
and individuals who would have made and experienced art within and
around the changing political boundaries of Rome.
An important new look at Rome's earliest buildings and their
context within the broader tradition of Mediterranean culture This
groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture
and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th
century BCE. Existing narratives cast the Greeks as the progenitors
of classical art and architecture or rely on historical sources
dating centuries after the fact to establish the Roman context.
Author John North Hopkins, however, allows the material and visual
record to play the primary role in telling the story of Rome's
origins, synthesizing important new evidence from recent
excavations. Hopkins's detailed account of urban growth and
artistic, political, and social exchange establishes strong
parallels with communities across the Mediterranean. From the late
7th century, Romans looked to increasingly distant lands for shifts
in artistic production. By the end of the archaic period they were
building temples that would outstrip the monumentality of even
those on the Greek mainland. The book's extensive illustrations
feature new reconstructions, allowing readers a rare visual
exploration of this fragmentary evidence.
A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that
addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context
This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil
Collection offers a new model for understanding works from
antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North
Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional
authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical
studies, and known provenance to gain insight into both the meaning
of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly
about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. As they
take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste,
these essays bring to life works that are often consigned to either
the imperial past or conceptual limbo and introduce a fresh
framework through which to engage with the multilayered history
that these objects represent.
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