Divine interiors : mural paintings in Greek and Roman sanctuaries

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Label

Divine interiors : mural paintings in Greek and Roman sanctuaries

Title remainder

mural paintings in Greek and Roman sanctuaries

Statement of responsibility

Eric M. Moormann

Title variation

Mural paintings in Greek and Roman sanctuaries

Creator

• Moormann, Eric M
• Moormann, Eric M

Subject

• Mural painting and decoration, Roman
• Rome -- Religion
• Shrines -- Greece
• Greece -- Religion
• Temples -- Greece
• Temples, Roman
• Shrines -- Rome
• Mural painting and decoration, Greek

Language

• eng
• grc
• lat
• eng

Summary

Divine Interiors is an investigation into the decoration of Greek and Roman temples with wall paintings. Mighty marble facades, sculptures and paintings played an important role in relation to these monuments. While the official temples, which were connected to the city or state, usually had a simple but solemn appearance, the more popular buildings were true multi-color expressions of religiosity. Scenes from the life of the revered deity, supporters and practitioners of the cult, or of plants and animals could carry visitors of the shrines away to different worlds. It is also striking to find in the vast Greco-Roman world that there are many similarities between often widely separated temples. The wall paintings were characterized by stylistic and taste changes, but they had the same look everywhere. Besides using archeological remains, this book also uses the texts of antiquity, whose descriptions of the monuments provide additional information

Cataloging source

JHE

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

Text in English with extensive quotations in Latin and Ancient Greek

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Amsterdam archaeological studies

Series volume

16