The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History by Verity Platt,Michael Squire

By Verity Platt,Michael Squire

The frames of classical paintings are frequently noticeable as marginal to the photographs that they encompass. conventional artwork background has tended to view framing units as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have usually handled them as instruments for taxonomic research. This e-book not just argues for the crucial position of framing inside Graeco-Roman artwork, but additionally explores the connection among the frames of classical antiquity and people of extra glossy artwork and aesthetics. participants mix shut formal research with extra theoretical techniques: chapters learn framing units throughout a number of media (including vase and fresco portray, aid and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring research round the topics of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. the result's a brand new cultural historical past of framing - person who probes the delicate and playful ways that frames might aid, delimit, form or even interrogate the pictures contained within.

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