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The Oxford Handbook of R O M A N I M AG E RY A N D I C O N O G R A P H Y The Oxford Handbook of ROMAN IMAGERY AND ICONOGRAPHY Edited by LEA K. CLINE and NATHAN T. ELKINS 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Cline, Lea K., editor. | Elkins, Nathan T., editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of Roman imagery and iconography. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2021026385 (print) | LCCN 2021026386 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190850326 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190850340 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Art and semiotics—Rome. | Art and society—Rome. | Art, Roman—Themes, motives. Classification: LCC N72. S46 O94 2022 (print) | LCC N72. S46 (ebook) | DDC 709.02/16—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021026385 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021026386 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190850326.001.0001 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America Contents Contributors ix Introduction Lea K. Cline and Nathan T. Elkins 1 PART I: METHOD AND THEORY 1. The Role of Images: Theoria and Exemplum 7 Annette Haug 2. Theoretical Approaches to Roman Imagery and Iconography 31 Clare Rowan 3. Word & Image 51 Michael Squire 4. Iconography and Archaeology 92 Elizabeth Marlowe 5. Image and Authority 114 Stephan Faust 6. Iconography of the Non-Iconic 139 Anna Anguissola PART II: IMAGE AND SEMANTICS 7. Iconography and Style in Republican and Early Imperial Art (200 bce to 14 ce) 169 Dominik Maschek 8. Late Roman Iconography and Style 200 Susanna McFadden vi Contents 9. Iconography and Imagery between Rome and the Provinces: A Case Study in Domestic Décor 222 Sarah Lepinski and Vanessa Rousseau PART III: IMAGE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE/ IMAGE AND CONTEXT 10. Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Republic 245 Riccardo Di Cesare 11. Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire 270 Elizabeth Wolfram Thill 12. Iconography and Social Practice in the Domestic Sphere 292 Silvana Costa 13. Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Republic 315 Bernhard E. Woytek 14. Coin Iconography and Social Practice in the Roman Empire 339 Fleur Kemmers 15. Gems, Cameos, and Social Practice 358 Jörn Lang 16. Pottery, Glass, and the Pictorial Habit between Late Republic and Early Empire 384 Manuel Flecker 17. Images and Interpretation of “the Other” in Roman Social Practice 405 Lisa Trentin 18. Images and Interpretation of Africans in Roman Art and Social Practice 425 Sinclair W. Bell 19. The Iconography of Early Christian Roman Art 464 Sean V. Leatherbury PART IV: IMAGERY IN RITUAL USE 20. Iconography and Roman Religion 487 K. A. Rask Contents vii 21. Funerary Imagery and Iconography 512 Regina Gee 22. Imagery in Jewish and Christian Ritual Settings 534 Matthew J. Grey and Mark D. Ellison Index 563 Contributors Anna Anguissola is Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Pisa, where she also serves as the Director of the Collection of Plaster Casts and Antiquities. Her research focuses on the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, the relationship between Greek and Roman art, domestic and funerary archi- tecture, urban development, and the reception of classical art in later periods. She co- ordinates survey and excavation projects in the burial grounds of Hierapolis (Phrygia) and in the Regio II of Pompeii. She is the author of Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory (Routledge, 2022), Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture: Workshop Practice and Modes of Viewing (Cambridge University Press, 2018), “Difficillima imitatio”: Immagine e lessico delle copie tra Grecia e Roma (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2012), and Intimità a Pompei. Riservatezza, condivisione e prestigio negli ambienti ad alcova di Pompei (De Gruyter, 2010). Sinclair W. Bell is Professor of Art History and Presidential Teaching Professor at Northern Illinois University. He studied classical art and archaeology at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, and Cologne. He is the editor of numerous volumes on Etruscan and Roman art and archaeology and is formerly the Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Lea K. Cline is Associate Professor of Art History and Ken Holder Endowed Professor of Art (2020–2 022) at Illinois State University. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the material cultural of Roman Italy. She is currently the codirector of the Northwest Lago di Bolsena Archaeological Project (Gradoli, Italy). Silvana Costa works as a contract archaeologist on a variety of projects and at a number of sites, ranging from the environs of Rome to the coast of Tuscany, Pompeii, and ancient Phrygia (in today’s Turkey). She earned her PhD in classical archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and was awarded visiting graduate fellowships at the École Normale Superieure in Paris and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She has published on a wide variety of subjects, with a focus on iconography and social prac- tice in the Roman domestic sphere. Her research interests also include ancient topog- raphy, underwater archaeology, late Roman pottery, Hellenistic sculpture, Roman baths, and Roman funerary architecture. She is the author of Forme, colori, sapori: funzione e produzione delle pitture di natura morta in area vesuviana (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2014).
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