Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics

Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xi

List of Illustrations xv

Introduction xix

PART ONE: COMPOSITION IN BLACK-AND-WHITE FIGURAL MOSAICS

1. First Century: Rise of the Independent Figure-in-Architecture 3

The Architectural Setting

Trabeated Construction

Vaulted Construction

2. Late Trajanic and Hadrianic Periods (110–138): Aesthetics of Flow and Kinesthetic Address 19

The Changing Relationship of Mosaic to Architecture

The Changing Relationship of Mosaic to the Spectator: Spectator Address

Three Types of Mosaic Composition

Trabeated Construction

Vaulted Construction

3. Antonine Period (139–193): Extension of

Kinesthetic Address 31

Trabeated Construction

4. Severan Period through Mid-Third Century (193 to

about 250): Aesthetics of Disjunction and Axiality 41

Monumental Trabeated Construction

Small-scale Trabeated Construction

Vaulted Construction

PART TWO: STYLE IN BLACK-AND-WHITE

FIGURAL MOSAICS

5. First Century: Silhouette Style and Its Alternatives 57

The Transition from Polychromy to Monochromy and the Emergence of the Silhouette Style

The Late Silhouette Style

The Neronian Fluid-Highlights Style

6. Late Trajanic and Hadrianic Periods (110-138):

Draftsmanly Style 69

The Draftsmanly Style

The Hadrianic Classicizing Style

VII Antonine Period (139-193): Emergence of the

Optical Style 81

White-line Drawing in the Draftsmanly Style

The Early Optical Style

7. Severan Period (193 -235) and Later Third Century:

Optical Styles 87

The Severan Optical Style I

The Late Draftsmanly Style

The Sevcran Optical Style II

The Optical Silhouette Style

Conclusion 103

Illustrations 107

Indices 141