A Globalised Visual Culture?
Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art
Published on 15. July 2020
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-1-78925-446-4 (ISBN)
Description
Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users - for instance in mosaics, architectural decoration, and luxury arts (silver plate, textiles, ivories), as well as in everyday objects such as tableware, lamps, and pilgrim vessels. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions, mingled with local elements, far beyond the traditional borders of the classical world. At the same time, foreign motifs, especially of Germanic and Sasanian origin, are attested in Roman territories. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions. The presentation of a wide range of relevant case studies chosen from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the vast scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of addressing such a complex historical question with a combination of different theoretical approaches.
Reviews / Votes
...an excellent resource for case studies on the following themes: the local appropriation of late antique koine in particular regions/localities; the spread and diffusion of late antique iconographies (if in theory more than in practice); and the reception of late antique koine beyond the Mediterranean. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 248 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1182 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78925-446-4 (9781789254464)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Guidetti Fabio Guidetti | Meinecke Katharina Meinecke
Globalised Visual Culture?
Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art
E-Book
07/2020
Oxbow Books
€36.99
Available for download
Guidetti Fabio Guidetti | Meinecke Katharina Meinecke
Globalised Visual Culture?
Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art
E-Book
07/2020
OXBOW BOOKS
€36.99
Available for download
Persons
Fabio Guidatto obtained his Ph.D. in Art History in 2011 from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His post-doctoral career was based first in Pisa, then in London (Warburg Institute) and Berlin (TOPOI Excellence Cluster). His research interests focus on the cultural and intellectual history of the Roman empire and late antiquity, especially in the fields of the history of art, history of religion and history of science. Katharina Meinecke teaches in the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna where she specailises in Roman and Late Antique iconography, the Umayyad pictorial language and globalisation in material culture.
Content
Table of contents
Introduction
Fabio Guidetti and Katharina Meinecke
I. Dynamics of provincial visual cultures in the late Roman empire
1. Becoming glocal! Glocalisation, the victorious charioteer from the villa of El Pomar (Hispania Baetica) and the emergence of a regional visual koine in 4th-century Augusta Emerita (Hispania Lusitana)
Ruben Montoya Gonzalez
2. Clothing differentiation in a shared visual culture: Dress imagery in mosaic iconography
Amy Place
3. Act locally, think globally: Late antique funerary painting from the territory of present-day Serbia
Jelena Andelkovic Grasar, Dragana Rogic and Emilija Nikolic
4. The emperors in the province: A study of the Tetrarchic images from the imperial cult chamber in Luxor
Nicola Barbagli
II. Iconography- or genre-related case studies
5. Images of the rider on horseback in the eastern Mediterranean in the 1st millennium AD
Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
6. The 'child with grapes' from Britain to Bahrain: Shared iconography, meaning and mobility on funerary monuments, AD 100-400
Lindsay R. Morehouse
7. Baptism and Roman gold-glasses: Salvation and social dynamics
Monica Hellstroem
8. 'First-generation diptychs' and the reception of Theodosian court art
Fabio Guidetti
III. Connections with Roman visual culture in extra-Roman and post-Roman contexts
9. Buckles and bones: Central Asiatic influences and the making of post-Roman Gaul
Carlo Ferrari
10. South Arabia in Late Antiquity: A melting pot of artistic ideas
Sarah Japp
11. The mosaic pavement beneath the floor of al-Aq?a mosque: A case study of late antique artistic koine
Michelina Di Cesare
IV. Modes of transfer: iconographies, motifs, objects
12. Circulating images: Late Antiquity's cross-cultural visual koine
Katharina Meinecke
13. Bracteates with Byzantine coin patterns along the Silk Road
Guo Yunyan
14. Small worlds of long Late Antiquity: Global entanglements, trade diasporas and network theory
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Introduction
Fabio Guidetti and Katharina Meinecke
I. Dynamics of provincial visual cultures in the late Roman empire
1. Becoming glocal! Glocalisation, the victorious charioteer from the villa of El Pomar (Hispania Baetica) and the emergence of a regional visual koine in 4th-century Augusta Emerita (Hispania Lusitana)
Ruben Montoya Gonzalez
2. Clothing differentiation in a shared visual culture: Dress imagery in mosaic iconography
Amy Place
3. Act locally, think globally: Late antique funerary painting from the territory of present-day Serbia
Jelena Andelkovic Grasar, Dragana Rogic and Emilija Nikolic
4. The emperors in the province: A study of the Tetrarchic images from the imperial cult chamber in Luxor
Nicola Barbagli
II. Iconography- or genre-related case studies
5. Images of the rider on horseback in the eastern Mediterranean in the 1st millennium AD
Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
6. The 'child with grapes' from Britain to Bahrain: Shared iconography, meaning and mobility on funerary monuments, AD 100-400
Lindsay R. Morehouse
7. Baptism and Roman gold-glasses: Salvation and social dynamics
Monica Hellstroem
8. 'First-generation diptychs' and the reception of Theodosian court art
Fabio Guidetti
III. Connections with Roman visual culture in extra-Roman and post-Roman contexts
9. Buckles and bones: Central Asiatic influences and the making of post-Roman Gaul
Carlo Ferrari
10. South Arabia in Late Antiquity: A melting pot of artistic ideas
Sarah Japp
11. The mosaic pavement beneath the floor of al-Aq?a mosque: A case study of late antique artistic koine
Michelina Di Cesare
IV. Modes of transfer: iconographies, motifs, objects
12. Circulating images: Late Antiquity's cross-cultural visual koine
Katharina Meinecke
13. Bracteates with Byzantine coin patterns along the Silk Road
Guo Yunyan
14. Small worlds of long Late Antiquity: Global entanglements, trade diasporas and network theory
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller