10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMAGINES MAIORUM»
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imagines maiorum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Ancient Rome in So Many Words - Strona 56
IMAGINES. (MAIORUM). I. IMAGES. of. the. ancestors,. WAX MASKS KEPT BY THE ROMAN NOBILITY Not the cost, but the spectacle of the imagines is what makes a great man's funeral a noble thing. (M. Aemilius Lepidus, giving instruction to ...
Christopher Francese, 2007
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Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture - Strona 32
iMartha I1883i 58i A STUDY of the imagines maiorum must ask what they actually were. This question includes both the physical nature of Roman ancestor masks and their role and meaning as social artefacts. In this chapter the outward ...
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Celtic Art in Europe: Making Connections - Strona 125
In addition, Etruscan elaborate graves show a distinctive ancestor worship, which manifests in grave statues and imagines maiorum in a broad regional variation (Colonna 1992; Prayon 1998; Colonna 1999; Koch 2008) (Fig. 14.6).
Christopher Gosden, Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider, 2014
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The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual
... cult of the imagines. But it is clearthat we are not talkingabout imagines maiorum. ... to the imagines maiorum that were displayed in the funeral procession and placed next to the corpse during the laudatio funebris. They are instead an ...
Björn C. Ewald, Carlos F. Noreña, Yale University. Department of Classics, 2010
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Latin Epigraphy: An Introduction to the Study of Latin ... - Strona 94
applies it to the verses carved by Augustus on the tomb of Drusus The earliest form of the Roman elogium was the titulus appended to the imagines maiorum. Suetonius mentions the family imagines et elogia*. The elogium included the name, ...
Sir John Edwin Sandys, 1919
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A Commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto - Strona 47
See Marquardt, Privatleben I2 24Iff.; Mommsen, Staatsrccht P 442ff.; Schanz I 39f; K. Schneider, Imagines maiorum, RE IX l (l9l4); W. Eisenhut, Imagines maiorum, Klcinc Pauly (l967). 18,1-2 The same thought l4,22f. E: accendere de is more ...
Michael Petrus Josephus Van Den Hout, Marco Cornelio Frontón, 1999
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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture - Strona 393
They probably did not imitate the cupboards (armaria) in which aristocratic Romans kept the images of their ancestors (imagines maiorum; Kockel 1993, 12–14). In most of these reliefs, the artists focused on the face (vultus, facies) and ...
Elise A. Friedland, Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, Elaine K. Gazda, 2015
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Prace z historii sztuki - Tomy 10-12 - Strona 13
Tę gałąź kolekcjonerstwa zapoczątkował okres włoskiego renesansu nawiązując do gatunku literackiego Imagines, uprawianego w starożytnym Rzymie zapewne nie bez związku z Imagines maiorum®. Najznakomitszy wzór Obrazów ...
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 1972
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Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine - Strona 174
Greth- lein, for example, reads Sallust's account of the imagines maiorum (Jug. 4.5), or masks of one's ancestors, not as a parallel to historiography, but as a contrast: “The historiographical work of Sallust gains its relevance from the failure of ...
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A Profile of Ancient Rome - Strona 87
The bier was followed by actors dressed in clothes appropriate to the rank of each ancestor and wearing wax death masks (imagines maiorum), molded from the face of each family member and jealously preserved in a well-protected cabinet ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMAGINES MAIORUM»
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imagines maiorum is used in the context of the following news items.
Why do we want this to be Shakespeare's 'true portrait' so much?
(A scribble that will soon be the ultimate source for images of Austen on our £10 ... of their ancestors in their homes – the imagines maiorum – as exemplars of ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Napoleón y el espejo de la antigüedad, de Víctor Mínguez e …
El rostro de la muerte (Imago mortis e imagines maiorum, La muerte del rey, Retratos mortuorios regios en la monarquía española, Infantes muertos etc.), y un ... «InfoENPUNTO, Oct 14»
Grad students create lifelike 'Roman' funeral masks
The masks, called imagines maiorum, were created out of beeswax, according to written sources. During funeral ceremonies, families would hire actors to ... «Cornell Chronicle, Feb 14»
Ancient Roman funeral masks made from wax were freakishly lifelike
Called imagines maiorum, the masks were made from beeswax — a very expensive substance at the time. The researchers say the choice of material was a way ... «io9, Jan 14»
Uncannily Lifelike Roman Masks Recreated in Wax
Recently, however, a team of researchers at Cornell University made life-cast molds of their own faces to recreate these imagines maiorum, and they found that ... «LiveScience.com, Jan 14»
