The Frame in Classical Art

This book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.

Part I. Framing the Frame: 1. Framing the visual in Greek and Roman antiquity: an introduction Verity Platt and Michael Squire; Part II. Framing Pictorial Space: Introduction Verity Platt; 2. The frames of Greek painted pottery Clemente Marconi; 3. Unframing the representation: the frontal face in Athenian vase painting Guy Hedreen; 4. Framing the Roman still life: Campanian wall painting and the frames of make-believe Michael Squire; Part III. Framing Bodies: Introduction Michael Squire; 5. Framing Archaic Greek sculpture: figure, ornament and script Nikolaus Dietrich; 6. Framing and social identity in Roman portrait statues Jennifer Trimble; 7. Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi Verity Platt; Part IV. Framing the Sacred: Introduction Verity Platt; 8. Framing divine bodies in Greek art Milette Gaifman; 9. How the Gauls broke the frame: the political and theological impact of taking battle scenes off Greek temples Robin Osborne; 10. Visual ontologies: style, archaism and framing in the construction of the sacred in the western tradition Jas' Elsner; Part V. Framing texts: Introduction Michael Squire; 11. Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy Courtney Roby; 12. Writing, reading, and seeing between the lines: framing late-antique inscriptions as texts and images Sean V. Leatherbury; 13. Envoi: framing 'antiquity' Rebecca Zorach.