Paintings and sculptures depicting gazelles (Gazella spp.) are frequent in Ancient Roman art. Images of gazelles have been discovered during the archaeological explorations of Herculaneum and Pompeii, devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ad 79. Two bronze statues of ungulates from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (National Archaeological Museum of Naples), have not been correctly identified, consequently causing erroneous speculation about their cultural significance. The aim of this paper is to suggest which gazelle species inspired these artefacts, and to also discuss the wider context of the artistic representations of gazelles from Herculaneum and Pompeii and their surroundings.
...More
Book
Campbell, Gordon Lindsay;
(2014)
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life
(/isis/citation/CBB001422644/)
Chapter
Kort, Pamela;
(2009)
Making Things Real: Odilon Redon and Jean Carriès
(/isis/citation/CBB001031456/)
Book
Davidson, Jane P.;
(2008)
A History of Paleontology Illustration
(/isis/citation/CBB000850359/)
Book
Christy Anderson;
Anne Dunlop;
Pamela H. Smith;
(2016)
The Matter of Art. Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250-1750
(/isis/citation/CBB876860571/)
Article
Smith, Pamela H.;
Beentjes, Tonny;
(2010)
Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life-Casting Techniques
(/isis/citation/CBB001030622/)
Book
Ciarallo, Annamaria;
Renn, Jürgen;
Castagnetti, Giuseppe;
Divarci, Lindy;
Rieger, Simone;
(2002)
Homo Faber: Studies on Nature, Technology, and Science at the Time of Pompeii
(/isis/citation/CBB000470942/)
Article
Anna Motta;
(2018)
The Philosophy of Artistic Creation: Phidias, the Ideas, and Cicero
(/isis/citation/CBB664182005/)
Article
Challis, Debbie;
(2012)
Fashioning Archaeology into Art: Greek Sculpture, Dress Reform and Health in the 1880s
(/isis/citation/CBB001213317/)
Book
Groom, Linda;
(2009)
First Fleet Artist: George Raper's Birds and Plants of Australia
(/isis/citation/CBB001033600/)
Chapter
Miller, Laura J.;
(2003)
Secondary Products and Urbanism in South Asia: The Evidence for Traction at Harappa
(/isis/citation/CBB001422468/)
Chapter
Rikken, Marrigje;
(2014)
Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery
(/isis/citation/CBB001552971/)
Book
Baker, Patricia Anne;
(2013)
The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World
(/isis/citation/CBB001422616/)
Book
Summers, David;
(2007)
Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting
(/isis/citation/CBB001022902/)
Book
Ciccarese, Maria Pia;
(2002)
Animali simbolici: alle origini del bestiario cristiano, Vol. 1: Agnello-gufo
(/isis/citation/CBB000640556/)
Article
Fernández Nieto, Francisco Javier;
(2004)
Un amuleto defensivo del templo contra los animales: el Basilisco
(/isis/citation/CBB000640289/)
Article
Vukovic-Bogdanovi, Sonja;
Blazic, Svetlana;
(2014)
Camels from Roman Imperial Sites in Serbia
(/isis/citation/CBB001422507/)
Book
Aristotle, ;
Beullens, Pieter;
Bossier, Fernand;
(2000)
De historia animalium: translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka
(/isis/citation/CBB000600053/)
Article
Echlin, Alexander;
(2014)
Dynasty, Archaeology and Conservation: The Bourbon Rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Eighteenth-Century Naples
(/isis/citation/CBB001421839/)
Article
Agnès Rouveret;
(2023)
Certamen artis ac naturae. Couleurs et matières dans la définition plinienne de la peinture (Histoire naturelle, livre 35)
(/isis/citation/CBB984443082/)
Article
Giovanni Verri;
Hariclia Brecoulaki;
(2023)
«From the face and the expression of the eyes»: Multidisciplinary studies of pigments in ancient Greek and Roman painted surfaces
(/isis/citation/CBB468963823/)
Be the first to comment!