Book contents
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Moderns
- Part II Ancients
- Five The Styles of Mimesis
- Six Storytelling and the “Illusive Similitude of Life”
- Seven Ceremonial Images and the “Amplification of Good Things”
- Eight Portraits Civic and Sacred
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Seven - Ceremonial Images and the “Amplification of Good Things”
from Part II - Ancients
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2024
Book contents
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Moderns
- Part II Ancients
- Five The Styles of Mimesis
- Six Storytelling and the “Illusive Similitude of Life”
- Seven Ceremonial Images and the “Amplification of Good Things”
- Eight Portraits Civic and Sacred
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter Seven considers images that depict ceremonial events in the wider context of the narratives in which they were embedded. Using Hermogenes of Tarsus’s rhetorical categories as an interpretive model, it discusses the historical frieze from the Arch of Constantine in Rome and the imperial panels depicting Justinian and Theodora in the church of San Vitale, Ravenna.
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- Style and Meaning in Late Antique ArtAncients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking, pp. 156 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024