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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information The Frame in Classical Art The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary ‘ornaments’. Likewise, classical archaeolo- gistshaveoftentreatedthemastoolsfortaxonomicanalysis.Thisbook not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classi- cal antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contribu- tors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase- and fresco-painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of ‘framing pictorial space’, ‘framing bodies’, ‘framing the sacred’ and ‘framing texts’.The result is a new cultural history of framing – one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could sup- port, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within. verity platt is Associate Professor in the departments of Clas- sics and History of Art at Cornell University. She has held fellow- ships at Oxford University, the University of Chicago, the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell. She is the author of Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Repre- sentation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion (2011), as well as numerous articles on Roman wall-painting, ancient theories of the image and artists’ lives. With Michael Squire, she is also editor of The ArtofArtHistoryinGraeco-RomanAntiquity(2010). michael squire is Reader in Classical Art at King’s College London, and has held fellowships at Cambridge, Cologne, Harvard, Munich, Stanford and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His books include Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (2009), The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy (2011), The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visu- alizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae (2011) and an edited volume, Sight and the Ancient Senses (2016). He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2013 for his research into classics and art history. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information The Frame in Classical Art ACulturalHistory Edited by verity platt and michael squire © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia 4843/24, 2nd Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, Delhi – 110002, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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In the event of an error or unintentional oversight, copyright holders are requested to inform Cambridge University Press: due accreditation will then be sought for any future edition of the book. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information For Roger and Chris © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information Contents List of Figures [page ix] List of Contributors [xxx] Preface [xxxiii] List of Abbreviations [xxxvi] i framing the frame 1 Framing the Visual in Greek and Roman Antiquity: An Introduction [3] verity platt and michael squire ii framing pictorial space Introduction [102] verity platt 2 The Frames of Greek Painted Pottery [117] clemente marconi 3 Unframing the Representation: The Frontal Face in Athenian Vase-Painting [154] guy hedreen 4 Framing the Roman ‘Still Life’: Campanian Wall-Painting and the Frames of Mural Make-Believe [188] michael squire iii framing bodies Introduction [256] michael squire 5 Framing Archaic Greek Sculpture: Figure, Ornament and Script [270] nikolaus dietrich 6 Framing and Social Identity in Roman Portrait Statues [317] jennifer trimble vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information viii Contents 7 Framing the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi [353] verity platt iv framing the sacred Introduction [384] verity platt 8 Framing Divine Bodies in Greek Art [392] milette gaifman 9 How the Gauls Broke the Frame: The Political and Theological Impact of Taking Battle Scenes off Greek Temples [425] robin osborne 10 Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism and Framing in the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition [457] jaselsner´ v framing texts Introduction [502] michael squire 11 Framing Technologies in Hero and Ptolemy [514] courtney roby 12 Writing, Reading and Seeing Between the Lines: Framing Late-Antique Inscriptions as Texts and Images [544] sean v. leatherbury 13 Envoi: Framing ‘Antiquity’ [583] rebecca zorach Bibliography [604] Index [679] © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information Figures 1.1 Minoan pot (‘Pilgrim’s flask’) decorated with an octopus, from Palaikastro, Crete, c. 1500 BC. Heraklion, Archaeological Museum, inv. 3383. © Scala/Art Resource, New York. [page 14] 1.2 Late Geometric krater attributed to the ‘Hirschfeld Painter’, from Athens, c. 750–735 BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 14.130.14 (Rogers Fund). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York. [15] 1.3 Ganymede portrayed on an Attic red-figure bell-krater attributed to the Berlin Painter, c. 500–490 BC. Paris, Musee´ du Louvre, inv. G 175. © Bridgeman-Giraudon/Art Resource, New York. [18] 1.4 Odysseus and Polyphemus portrayed on a Protoattic neck-amphora from Eleusis, mid seventh century BC. Eleusis, Archaeological Museum, inv. 2630. © Gianni Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, New York. [19] 1.5 Details of frescoes in the ‘Corinthian oecus’, Casa del Labirinto, Pompeii (VI.11.9–10), mid first century BC. © De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images. [22] 1.6 Rustic landscape, from the Red Room (cubiculum 16) in the Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, late first century BC. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. © Bridgeman Images. [24] 1.7 Cubiculum ‘I’, painted in the Fourth Style ‘carpet style’, in the Casa degli Amorini Dorati, Pompeii (VI.16.7), mid first century AD. © De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images. [25] 1.8 Photograph of Antony Gormley’s ‘Still Standing’ exhibition (St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 3 September 2011–15 January 2012). Photograph reproduced by kind permission of the Antony Gormley Studio. [26] 1.9a Arch of Titus, Forum Romanum, Rome, AD c. 81. Photograph: Deutsches Archaologisches¨ Institut, Rom (D-DAI-Rom 2008.2536; photograph by H. Behrens). [30] ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16236-5 — The Frame in Classical Art Edited by Verity Platt , Michael Squire Frontmatter More Information x List of Figures 1.9b Detail of the inner vault