Alexandra Sofroniew: Household Gods

Cover: 9781606064566 | Household Gods | Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome | Buch

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Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could have a deep personal and spiritual meaning. Roman houses were often filled with images of gods. Gods and goddesses were represented in mythological paintings on walls and in decorative mosaics on floors, in bronze and marble sculptures, on ornate silver dining vessels, and on lowly
> Showcasing the collections in the Getty Villa, this book's emphasis on the spiritual beliefs and practices of individuals promises to make the works of Greek and Roman art more accessible to readers. Compelling representations of private religious devotion, these small objects express personal ways of worshiping that are still familiar to us today. A chapter on contemporary domestic worship further enhances the relevance of these miniature sculptures for modern viewers.

Über den Autor

Alexandra Sofroniew was assistant curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She has curated exhibitions for the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Currently, she teaches classical archaeology at St. John's College, Oxford.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allgemeine Kunst
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781606064566
ISBN-10:	1606064568
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sofroniew, Alexandra
Hersteller:	Getty Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 184 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Alexandra Sofroniew
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.02.2016
Gewicht:	0,666 kg

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