The Alexander Mosaic
Ada Cohen · 1997
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About the book
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Ada Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that characterize this literature. In this study, she examines the Mosaic as it may have functioned in two different contexts, first as a Greek painting of the fourth century B.C., and then as a Roman mosaic of ca. 100 B.C. A variety of interpretive issues regarding history and art history are thus foregrounded, which have broader implications for the study of ancient monuments.
First sentence: IT IS CONSIDERED one of the great masterpieces of ancient art, a work whose beauty conjures up something of the astonishing achievement of artists otherwise known to us as mere names, listed in Books 34 and 35 of Pliny's Natural History.
Book details
- Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 302
- ISBN
- 9780521775434
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