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Arte romana

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Dal primo incontro con l’arte greca ai trionfi dell’età imperiale fino ai segni della tarda antichità, nelle pagine di Paul Zanker l’arte romana rivela un nuovo volto.

«Ogni cultura e ogni epoca sviluppa proprie forme espressive con cui stabilisce e allo stesso tempo assicura i propri riti, valori e forme di vita sociale. Anche le immagini appartengono a queste forme di concreta e creativa affermazione di sé. Al pari del linguaggio, esse costituiscono primariamente uno strumento di comunicazione sociale.»

Paul Zanker rilegge le grandi testimonianze dell’arte romana, pubbliche e private, e svela il nesso che lega immagini, forme e creazione artistica alla struttura sociale, all’ordinamento politico, ai valori e alla mentalità della più grande potenza dell’età antica.

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

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Paul Zanker

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Paul Zanker is the professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously Zanker was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of Göttingen (1972–1976). He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Sather professor of the University of California at Berkeley. Zanker is head of the German Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

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1,725 reviews
March 25, 2015
This book presents itself an introduction to Roman art, however the reader should be aware of its significant limitations in terms of scope and period covered.

The book focuses almost exclusively on sculptures. Paintings, metal works and mosaics are barely mentioned, architecture is severely limited to funerary monuments and commemorative arches and these are only scarcely described. As far as period covered, the book concentrates on the Hellenistic and early imperial period while late antiquity is briefly mentioned on the last chapter few pages.

The author presents a number of interesting readings of the “self-image” as seen by Romans themselves and the book contains a fine number of pictures supporting his interpretations. Worth a read if interested in the Roman Hellenistic period.
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3 reviews
April 29, 2022
Lettura non pesante, scorrevole. Il libro parla dello sviluppo Artistico Romano, molto interessante per quanto riguarda lo studio sulla ritrattistica e come cambiamo i canoni della rappresentazione in base all’area geografica e alle tradizioni.
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June 23, 2025
The photography of Roman artwork and sculpture in this volume is beautiful. Paul Zanker uses the imagery to highlight themes and patterns in Roman artwork starting with the adaptation of Greek forms until the time of Constatine.
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30 reviews
December 4, 2022
Guida universitaria abbastanza completa. Il contesto generale è ben spiegato, mentre invece sulle singole opere non si dice più dello stretto necessario.
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52 reviews
April 24, 2023
Für eine gute Einführung in die römische Kunst, kann ich dieses Buch nicht höher empfehlen.

Ich musste dieses Buch für die Uni lesen, und es fühlte sich nicht wie eine Aufgabe an.
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44 reviews
February 6, 2025
Uno dei libri meglio scritti tra quelli che ho letto. Lo stile ti riporta veramente nelle epoche descritte e l'esposizione è sempre chiara e completa. Giustamente ci sono molte foto
18 reviews
May 20, 2025
Just brushing up on my Roman art history, Zanker is insightful as always
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December 13, 2016
This book focuses on quality rather than quantity in that it doesn't look at a wide range of Roman artifacts, but it does provide in depth analysis of those that it does survey. Great photographs though many are in black and white, which takes away from their immediacy.
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March 7, 2013
Gostei bastante mas trata-se apenas de um resumo de algumas das principais tendências da arte romana. As imagens são de grande qualidade e exemplificam perfeitamente os conceitos discutidos no texto. Só gostava que fosse um pouco mais aprofundado.
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