Publication Date:
2007
abstract:
An overview of Roman painting in I c. BC.: innovations in technique and painters repertory in this period must be related to the increase of luxury. The article focuses on various aspects (the new system in house decoration; materials and symbolic use of colour) and aims to reconstuct the social mechanisms promoting the creation of a new figurative language.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
List of contributors:
Bragantini, Irene
Book title:
Villas, maisons, sanctuaires et tombeaux tardo-républicains: découvertes et relectures récentes