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Language: French
EUR 45
ISBN 978-2-7118-6173-6
Number of pages: 352
Number of illustrations: 330
Publication date: March 2014
Dimensions: 24.5 x 29 cm
Binding: hard-cover
Authors: Eugenio La Rocca, Professor of Archaeology and History of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Rome; Cécile Giroire, Curator in the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre; Daniel Roger, Chief Curator in the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre; Annalisa Lo Monaco, Research Fellow at the Sapienza University of Rome; Claudio Parisi Presicce, Director of the Capitoline Museums.
Publisher: Editions of the RMN - Grand Palais
Categories: Books, Exhibition Catalogues
Museum: Louvre, Grand Palais, Champs Elysées
Themes: Archaeology, Architecture, History, History of Art
http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/librairie/auguste/6942.html
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AUGUSTE
AUGUSTE
As a brilliant politician, great reformer, patron of the arts and letters, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-14AD) has forever left his mark on Rome and the Roman Empire during his 40-years reign. As military and religious leader, Augustus established the Pax Romana, a period of abundance and prosperity.
This major exhibition, first presented at the Quirinale in Rome, celebrated the two thousandth anniversary of the death of Augustus. The last major exhibition devoted to Augustus took place in Germany in 1980.
The exhibition shows his meteoric career and his exceptional ability to renew the republican tradition, while promoting the development of a specifically Roman artistic culture that was different from the Greek model. Thus, under his protection Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid forged new literary forms.
The catalogue summarizes past and recent research on this exceptional emperor and gives an account of groundbreaking discoveries. Through some 200 works, portraits, statues, utensils, glass, jewellery, bas-reliefs and beyond the official character, the rich personality of Augustus emerges.
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Posted 9 May 2014
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Auguste is a treasure of a book as catalogue to the exposition with the same name now in the Grand Palais, Paris, France and deserves a place in all the libraries of departments of education, glass schools and in the hearts of glass lovers.
Regrettably released in French only, but very clearly written. So well-designed the book starts with an introduction by Eugenio La Rocca, Cécile Giroire, Daniel Roger, Annalisa Lo Monaco and Claudio Parisi Presicce. The Chapter Auguste entre deux bimillénaires, followed by L’Auguste Rima Porta 150 ans après sa découverte, Mythe et pouvoir : la mystification augustéenne, Les dieux protecteurs d’Auguste, Auguste et ses astres, Auguste et les poètes, Auguste poète and Chronologie describe the person of Auguste very well, showing wonderful photos of statues, posters, artefacts – as in the whole book - and it continues with the Chapters Octave et la guerre civile, Le régime augustéen, La Rome d’Auguste, Un nouveau langage artistique, La vie privée à l’époque augustéenne, Auguste et les provinces and Mort et Apothéose.
In Le luxe dans la vie privée you will find with wall paintings, reliefs, furniture, statues, lamps, jewellery, and ceramics, glass like the Portland vase, cameo glass plates and vases, more glass from the Pax Romana period after 27BC, produced in local studios from the glass material from the primary glass factories in the Mediterranean Sea area and from recycled glass shards. With wonderful works like mosaic glass, ribbon shaped gold glass, small balm flasks and bowls in band mosaic glass and glass from entombments the period where glassblowing was established is well mapped out.
Angela van der Burght
See in the Agenda: Moi, Auguste, Empereur de Rome from 19/3/2014-13/7/2014 in Grand Palais, Galerie Nationales, Paris, France
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