Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

Taylor & Francis

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman ArtAuthor(s): Gabriel Pihas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032101422, 978-1032101422\nSynopsis\nThis volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power. \n\nRomes unique art history reveals a different side of the battle between ancients and moderns than that usually raised as an issue in the history of science and philosophy. The book traces the idea of a cosmos in pre-modern art in Rome, from the reception of Greek art in the Roman republic to the construction of the Pantheon, to early Christian art and architecture. It then sketches the disappearance of the presupposition of a cosmos in the High Renaissance and Baroque periods, as.

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