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le 30e colloque de l'AFPMA aura lieu les vendredi 24 et samedi 25 novembre 2017 au musée départemental Arles antique à Arles. Vous trouverez ci joint le programme de ces 30e rencontre et dans une autre rubrique la fiche d'inscription... more
This essay argues that abstract colouristic effects were favoured in the arts of ancient Rome in a manner long overlooked. Taking the wall paintings of Cubiculum B from the Villa Farnesina as a case in point, the article demonstrates that... more
The late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room, approximately 18 m2 in area, connected with two even smaller ones, in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area, belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb) discovered in the... more
This paper deals with the House of Leukaktios, which has been discovered during Polish excavations at Ptolemais, Libya, in 2001 2007. The house has almost completely preserved mosaic pavements and the plan of Graeco-Roman type with an... more
Este artigo visa debater alguns aspectos da religiosidade romana, enfatiza, sobretudo, que temas como estes não necessitam estar separados de outros assuntos da esfera humana, e que podem estar atrelados a elementos da vida cotidiana,... more
This paper provides a preliminary outline of the wall paintings discovered 2015-2016 during the excavation in Panossas "Buissières" (Isère), in the hinterland of the Vienna and Lyon colonies. The settlement includes several residential... more
The paper is devoted to architectural pequliarities of late Roman principia in Egypt and their possible prototypes.
John Cabot University’s Master of Arts (MA) in Art History fosters professional mastery of the materials and methods of art history with emphasis on first-hand research in the museums, monuments, and archaeological sites of Rome. The... more
This paper seeks to synthesize descriptions of Roman infantry in the literary sources, in particular Polybius 18.30, with visual depictions of Roman soldiers in combat and on parade. Arguing that select visual representations of Roman... more
In the 1st century BC most artworks and valuable objects of craftsmanship were acquired for Roman private and public galleries as war trophies and from thieving and plunder in the aftermath of war. Octavian bought a famous painting of... more
Pour ce premier numéro de 2022, Archéologia vous propose de découvrir l’immense puzzle des enduits peints de la maison de la Harpiste mise au jour à Arles sur le site de la Verrerie. Ce long et minutieux travail est en train de... more
By Agneta Freccero Pub. Year: 2018 Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER Series: Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 37 ISBN: 978-88-913-1651-6 Paperback Pag.: 164, 100 ill. B/N, 1 ill. Col. Size: 24 x 28 cm Il volume di... more
This paper proposes a new interpretation of the famous fourth century A.D. mosaic of the “Seven Sages” and the “Anger of Achilles”. Discovered in Merida in 1982, this mosaic was previously analyzed and interpreted by J.M. Aharez Martinez... more
Desde o final do século XIX até meados do XX, os estudos clássicos foram permeados de conceitos racistas e excludentes, ideias de superioridade e dominação eram muito comuns entre os estudiosos. Buscando uma relação imediata com o passado... more
L’opera traccia un compendio globale della collezione di pitture ercolanesi e pompeiane del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, pubblicato in concomitanza con la riapertura della sezione che li custodisce e allo stato degli studi in... more
Studio monografico sulla vita e l'attività artistica di Ginesio del Barba (1691-1762)
The research on the decorations of the area of the sanctuary is the result of a field project on the temple of Venus at Pompeii, supervised by Emmanuele Curti, of the “Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia di Matera”. The analysis... more
The high-quality portraits of the mosaic dome at Centcelles provide an important clue for the dating of the mosaics. The dominus portrait seems to date in the Constantine era due to its iconographical parallels to three-dimensional... more
Fouillé à la fin des années 80, le site de la maison au Grand Péristyle a livré de nombreux éléments de décors peints et stuqués partiellement étudiés en 1993. Entièrement repris lors d’une étude récente, ils livrent une image plus... more
in : J. Boislève, A. Dardenay et F. Monier (éds.). - Peintures murales et stucs d'époque romaine,études toichographologiques : Actes du 28e colloque de l'AFPMA, 20-21 novembre 2015, Paris, Ausonius, Pictor, collection de l'AFPMA, 6,... more
in : J. Boislève, A. Dardenay et F. Monier (éd.). - Peintures murales et stucs d'époque romaine, révéler l'architecture par l'étude du décor : Actes du 26e colloque de l'AFPMA, 16-17 novembre 2012, Strasbourg, Ausonius, Pictor, collection... more
""The author analyses the mythological subjects known from the funerary paintings of the Near East. He is interested principally in the meaning and the message which these representations conveyed. He studies the interpretative problems... more