Main entry:

Jacobs, I. (Ine), author.

Title & Author:

Aesthetic maintenance of civic space : the 'Classical' city from the 4th to the 7th c. AD / by I. Jacobs.

Publication:

Leuven : Uitgeverij Peeters : Departement Oosterse Studies, 2013.

Description:

xi, 1028 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 0777-978X ; 193

Notes:
Dissertation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 763-831) and indexes.
Introduction. Description of the subject -- Fortifications -- Streets and squares -- Decorative monuments -- Religious architecture -- Statuary -- Late Antique and early Byzantine architectural changes -- Initiators and constructors -- Using urban space -- Conclusion. Aesthetic maintenance of the civic landscape -- Appendix 1. Short description of core sites -- Appendix 2. Overview of monuments discussed

Summary:

During the Roman period the construction and maintenance of civic infrastructure and monuments, such as bath buildings, theatres, fountains, arches, statues and so on were regarded as the normal duty of well-off citizens, who constituted the local government. For the subsequent period, encompassing the 4th to the 7th century AD, it has long been assumed that changing social and political conditions within the Roman Empire resulted in a severe reduction of expenditure and concurrent loss of sentimental and aesthetic attitudes towards public space. This book challenges this assumption. It assesses the care still given to monuments and public space in the cities in the Eastern Mediterranean, reconstructs how the city represented itself, and focuses on the protagonists in this field. First, it evaluates the diverse initiators of interventions and their motivation. Second, the skills of the actual constructors are looked into in order to judge their identity and number. Third, the priorities of the viewers and use of public space.

ISBN:

9789042923027 (cl.)
9042923024 (cl.)

Subject:

Public spaces Rome.
Public spaces Byzantine Empire.
Aesthetics, Roman.
Architecture, Byzantine.
City planning Rome.
City planning Byzantine Empire.
Espaces publics Rome.
Espaces publics Empire byzantin.
Esthétique romaine.
Architecture byzantine.
City planning
Public spaces
Spätantike
Idealstadt
Öffentlicher Raum
Civilization, Ancient.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Architecture, Classical.
Art, Municipal.
Offentliga platser.
Estetik.
Arkitektur.
Stadsplanering.
Romerska riket.
Bysantinska riket.
Byzantine Empire
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Theses.
History

Added entries:

Peeters (Firm), publisher.
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ). Departement Oriëntalistiek, publisher.
Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 193.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291597
Call No.: NA9053.S6 J33 2013
Status: Available