Spolia and Spectacle: Art Collecting Culture in Late Republican Rome

This thesis looks at the evolution of art collection in the middle to late Roman Republic. Through the examination of military triumphs, manubial structures, and the sculpture collection of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, this paper investigates the social motivations for art collection. Art...

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Main Author: Penman, Jill Diana
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/702
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1649&context=scripps_theses