Mellan rummet och rörelsen. Om avfärdsmotivet i bildframställningar av den romerska apoteosen
(2016) In Tahiti 4.- Abstract
- When the leading Roman magistrates of the Republic, and later on the Roman emperors, made official appearances in connection with important political and military events and functions, some urban locations in the cityscape became symbolically charged, in Rome especially Forum Romanum, Capitolium and the city gates. The ceremonial acting in front of the assembled public was dependent on measures adopted to organize space and movement. Studying the patterns of acting starting from space and movement—space and movement are signal words in actual research—one may detect factors of importance for the cognitive underpinning of the ceremonies.
Taking my cue from space and movement, I study images of the imperial apotheosis of Roman... (More) - When the leading Roman magistrates of the Republic, and later on the Roman emperors, made official appearances in connection with important political and military events and functions, some urban locations in the cityscape became symbolically charged, in Rome especially Forum Romanum, Capitolium and the city gates. The ceremonial acting in front of the assembled public was dependent on measures adopted to organize space and movement. Studying the patterns of acting starting from space and movement—space and movement are signal words in actual research—one may detect factors of importance for the cognitive underpinning of the ceremonies.
Taking my cue from space and movement, I study images of the imperial apotheosis of Roman emperors, i.e. the divinization of Roman emperors by way of a ceremonial act at the Field of Mars in Rome (Campus Martius). Most of the material is made up of marble reliefs for public exposure. A natural question is how space and movement as related to the actual performance of the ceremony were transposed, or not transposed, into the image. Another question concerns how the visual representation of the vertical transport of the soul of the deceased into heaven and the Olympus, i.e. the cognitive kernel of apotheosis, was realized. I point at the iconographic model that became dominant in the public imagery, viz. departure, and why: it is connected to the notion of becoming a god, in the presence of people witnessing the start of the process. I also indicate the relevance of the apparent associations of space with the living and movement with the deceased. The space-movement elaboration in fact forms part of the construction of the Roman apotheosis as a visual motif. (Less) - Abstract (Swedish)
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- Rystedt, Eva LU
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- alternative title
- Between space and movement. On the motif of departure in images of Roman apotheosis
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- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- Tahiti
- volume
- 4
- ISSN
- 2242-0665
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
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- Special issue: Festschrift for Lars Berggren
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- ebfb659c-e340-4c2b-99da-eeea429eeaf8
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- http://tahiti.fi/04-2016/tieteelliset-artikkelit/mellan-rummet-och-rorelsen-om-avfardsmotivet-i-bildframstallningar-av-den-romerska-apoteosen/
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