A companion to Roman art - Borg, Barbara (Chichester, West Sussex, UK Wiley, Blackwell, 2015)
1. Defining roman art -- 2. Roman historical representations -- 3. Methodological approaches to the dating and identification of roman portraits -- 4. Roman art and gender studies -- 5. Republican Rome and italic art -- 6. Adapting Greek art -- 7. The art of late antiquity: a contextual approach -- 8. Technique and message in roman art -- 9. Roman art and the artist -- 10. Roman art and the state -- 11. "Arte Plebea" and non-elite roman art -- 12. Roman portraits -- 13. Wall painting -- 14. Mosaics -- 15. Roman sarcophagi -- 16. Decorative art -- 17. Luxury arts -- 18. Roman architecture as art? -- 19. Art in roman town houses -- 20. Art in the roman villa -- 21. The decoration of private space in the later roman empire -- 22. The decoration of roman tombs -- 23. Catacombs and the beginnings of Christian tomb decoration -- 24. The Greek east under Rome -- 25. The western roman provinces -- 26. Contextualizing Roman art and nature -- 27. Roman art and spectacle -- 28. Roman art and myth -- 29. The myth of Pompeii: fragments, frescos, and the visual imagination -- 30. Roman architecture through the ages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Art, Roman