Les recherches portant sur les fora provinciaux effectuées au cours des dernières décennies ont permis de redéfinir un certain nombre de leurs caractéristiques. L’étude du décor de ces centres civiques dans sa globalité constitue alors une approche susceptible d’apporter une meilleure compréhension de ces espaces. Cette première approche du sujet a pour objectif d’aborder la question du dialogue entre les images présentes sur le forum et leurs contextes. Le décor figuratif permet de définir les principales thématiques, qui sont souvent complétées par des décors non figuratifs, et qui participent à la diffusion de l’idéologie impériale. Ce décor doit ensuite être contextualisé, afin d’en comprendre la conception, et d’aborder la question de sa réception par le spectateur. / Over the last few decades, studies on provincial fora defined some of their characteristics. A global approach of their decor can bring about a better understanding of these spaces. The link between the images and their contexts will be examined. The study of the images will be associated with the study of non iconographical elements of the decor in order to define the main themes represented on the fora. The definition of several contexts will help to understand how the decor was conceived and seen at the time.

In Roman society, freed slaves were elevated to a citizen-like status, yet they never had the full rights of their free-born counterparts. Despite the inequality of the system, many freedmen appear to have found great success in the realm of business. This report endeavors to reveal why it was that this group prospered within the Roman economy using a pseudo-Darwinian perspective. Scholarship has, for the most part, tended to avoid Darwinian lines of thought in sociological studies but this report shows the power of this type of thinking. The first chapter clarifies the nature of slavery in the Roman world and the wide variety of experiences that slaves could have. Chapter two considers the different ways that slaves could be manumitted and how a freedman’s status could differ depending on the formality of his release from servitude. The third chapter examines the literary representations of freedmen in the genre of comedy and Petronius’ Satyricon. Chapter four turns to the archaeological evidence and provides a sense of how freedmen represented themselves to the wider community. Lastly, the fifth chapter, using a pseudo-Darwinian model, will show that the image of the successful freedman is not an anomaly of the archaeological record or a trope of Latin literature but an inevitable outcome of the intense selection that slaves underwent. / text

The topic of the Diploma thesis is "Necropoleis on the Vatican Hill. The decoration analysis and its parallels in Roman art." The diploma thesis is divided into several parts that are particularly analysed. The first part is focused on the Vatican area layout in ancient world and both ancient and contemporary area layouts are compared. The second part is focused on the analysis of mausoleums along Via Cornelia and their decoration. The thesis tries to find some parallels with the mausoleums in the roman art which proclaim the use of these iconographical materials in other settings and historical backgrounds. The next part describes the necropolis along Via Triumphalis and the most important tombs within the specific sectors. The individual subchapters deal with selected motifs, which meanings intersect the pagan and Christian world. The following part analyzes selected sarcophagi and their decorative motifs. Consequently, both observed contexts are compared. The last part of the thesis provides the dating of several lamps from necropolis along Via Triumphalis. Keywords Vatican, necropolis, Via Cornelia, Via Triumphalis, antiquity, early Christian, roman art, decoration, sarcophagi

Technique décorative antique plébiscitée par l’art romain, le stuc connaît une véritable renaissance à Rome durant le XVIe siècle. À partir d’un intérêt pour une esthétique antiquisante, les artistes modernes ont intégré le stuc à des problématiques plus précises concernant le dialogue entre les arts et l’exploration des frontières implicites et explicites délimitant l’art et son espace de réception. Le stuc est en effet employé à la Renaissance aussi bien en architecture (pour les moulures et ornements, pour recouvrir la brique et donner une allure « marmoréenne » aux édifices), en peinture (pour servir de support à la fresque et y intégrer le relief) et en sculpture (pour l’exécution de reliefs figuratifs et de figures allant jusqu’à la ronde-bosse, intégrées le plus souvent à un décor peint). Loin d’opposer ces disciplines, le stuc les relie en s’emparant de leurs modes d’expression pour les faire cohabiter au sein du décor et, ce faisant, permet aux artistes d’adopter un point de vue réflexif quant à leur pratique, orienté vers l’investigation des moyens et natures de la représentation. Cette introspection se double, comme un corollaire, d’une investigation des effets de l’art et de sa capacité à convoquer le spectateur, à l’impliquer et l’intégrer au sein de la représentation afin de rendre plus mouvantes et fluctuantes les limites du décor. À partir d’une position « ornementale », voire « marginale », nombre de figures de stuc exécutées à Rome dès avant l’âge Baroque semblent vouloir offrir à la notion de frontière une application très originale, où les questions du simulacre et de la transgression se trouvent subtilement investies et convoquées. / As an ancient decorative technique favoured by Roman art, stucco is given a genuine renaissance in Sixteenth century Rome. Modem artists’ general interest in Antiquity includes more precise considerations regarding the possible functions of stucco in the dialogue between the arts, and explorations of the frontiers separating art from its beholder. Indeed, stucco is being used during the Renaissance in architecture (for the moulding and ornaments, to coat brick walls and give it a "marmoreal" appearance), in painting (as an intonaco for fresco) and in sculpture (to make figurative reliefs and free standing figures, generally combined with mural paintings). Far from opposing the arts, stucco connects them by taking possession of their modes of expression to make them work together inside the decorative systems and, doing so, gives the artists the opportunity to adopt a reflexive point of view regarding their practice, looking toward the investigation of the nature and means of representation. This particular introspection is also a research on the effects of art and its ability to convoke the beholder, to make him part of the representation and make more ambivalent the boundaries of decoration. From an "ornamental", even "marginal" position, numerous stucco figures executed in Rome before the Baroque age give the concept of aesthetic frontier an original instance, where simulacra and transgression are ingeniously summoned.

This study provides an in depth analysis of three temples dedicated to emperors in Roman Asia (western Asia Minor): the Temple of Divine Rulers at Aphrodisias, the Temple of Divine Rulers at Ephesus and the Temple of Zeus Philios and Trajan at Pergamon. Focusing on each case study in a separate chapter, the project provides a brief introduction to each city's history and a detailed discussion of each temple's name, dating, patronage structure, architectural form, sculptural program, and the application techniques of sculptural and architectural details. The study proposes an understanding of these temples as key monuments of constantly changing dynamic urban landscapes rather than simple symbolic gestures towards the Roman emperors. Utilizing Kevin Lynch's terminology, the project suggests close links between each monument and the already existing urban elements of each individual city, further strengthening its overall urban image. These structures were essential to their urban contexts, and their meanings and functions were directly linked to the culture and history of each city. Finally, the project demonstrates that through their architectural designs and sculptural programs, each temple emphasized the perspectives of the local elite. The methodology of the project involves a careful study of the city plans, an analysis of context-specific local features and finally a consideration of multiple-viewer perceptions. This dissertation aims to provide an alternative model for later studies in Roman provincial art and architecture. / text

Most studies of Roman architecture cover the third century BCE to the fourth century CE, a period of luxurious building projects like the Colosseum and Pantheon that remain relatively well documented in the archaeological and literary record. Yet Rome did not spring fully formed from the ground in the third century, its architecture relying entirely on precursors and precedents in buildings from far away times and places. In this study I fit remains of architecture from early Rome (ca. 650 to 450 BCE) into the cultural framework of the contemporaneous Mediterranean and try to assess how the changing cityscape effected both archaic Romans and later Roman architecture and topography. Because many studies of archaic Rome have attempted to fit archaeological remains with the literary record, and because this has created much controversy, I put the literary record to one side and focus on material remains in an attempt to see what they can reveal on their own.

This thesis examines the ways in which the Magna Mater became an integral part of Augustan ideology and the visual language of the early principate. Traditionally, our picture of the Augustan Magna Mater has been shaped by evidence from literary sources. Here, however, the monuments of the goddess' cult are considered in their religio-political context. Works that link Augustus himself to the Magna Mater are shown to reveal that the goddess played a significant and hitherto unappreciated role in official propaganda. Part I examines the nature of the Augustan reconstruction of the Palatine Temple of the Magna Mater and challenges persistent claims that the princeps was disinterested in the metroac cult. Augustus' use of inexpensive building materials is shown to be, not a display of parsimony, but an attempt to retain the traditional appearance of a venerable structure. A reinterpretation of the temple's pedimental and acroterial sculpture, using the Valle-Medici reliefs, demonstrates that Augustus promoted the Magna Mater as an allegory of Rome's Trojan heritage and as a symbol of a new Golden Age. Part II investigates the topography of the Augustan precinct on the Palatine, and argues that the geographic linkage of the metroön and the House of Augustus became a topos in imperial imagery. It then demonstrates that several well-known works of art echo this connection between the princeps and the goddess. These works range from statues in the Circus Maximus designed to be viewed by thousands, to the Gemma Augustea, a luxury item intended for the elite. They are also found both inside and outside Rome. A reassessment of the Vicus Sandaliarius altar and the Sorrento base illustrates popular recognition of Augustus' reinvention of the Magna Mater as a national deity of Rome and the tutelary goddess of the Julio-Claudii.

Habilitationsschrift--Freiburg im Breisgau, 1968. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-18).

Habilitationsschrift--Freiburg im Breisgau, 1968. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-18).

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