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<p>Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In <i>The Learned Collector</i>, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan and Christian alike, was fundamental in shaping their artistic taste while demonstrating how that taste was considered an important marker of status. Surveying collections across the empire, Stirling examines different ways that sculptural collections expressed not only the wealth but the identity of their aristocratic owners.</p> <p>The majority of statues in late antique homes were heirlooms and antiques. Mythological statuary, which would be interpreted in varying degrees of complexity, favored themes reflecting aristocratic pastimes such as dining and hunting. <i>The Learned Collector</i> investigates the manufacture of these distinctive statuettes in the later fourth century, the reasons for their popularity, and their modes of display in Gaul and the empire.</p> <p>Although the destruction of ancient artwork looms large in the common view of late antiquity, statuary of my

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Author

Lea Margaret Stirling

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472114337

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Sociology