Introduction
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The Guide
This guide presents a selection of works of art from ancient Greece and the Roman Empire that inspired or were models for many American monuments and memorials, especially those dedicated during the Neo-Classical period of the 19th century. Articles on Byzantine reuse, reception, and rejection of the earlier art works are referenced. Monuments include statues and portrait sculpture; arches; columns and obelisks; tombs and mausolea; and coins depicting portraits, statues, and architectural monuments. Selected bibliographic references to the art works and to monuments and memorials in general are provided.
References to Images
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia: new approaches by
This book began to take shape following a conference on the Statue of Zeus at Olympia held at the University of Queensland in July 2008. In line with the main themes of the conference, the book has two fundamental aims: the first is to recognise the unsurpassed reputation of the Zeus in antiquity, to move beyond the framework provided by the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and to treat the famous statue in depth, as befits its unique importance in ancient times; the second aim is to employ a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives in the hope of capturing more accurately than before something of that unique importance. The book is aimed at academic specialists in a variety of disciplines (such as art, archaeology, history, literature, and cultural poetics), though it is also intended to be accessible to undergraduates and certainly to research students. The audience will primarily be one interested in classical antiquity, but there are chapters which trace the story and influence of the Zeus through the Byzantine, Renaissance, and early modern periods, and into more recent centuries in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
Publication Date: 2011 -- online
"Augustus in the Guise of Jupiter," in The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus by
"Art and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition." Upon this premise Paul Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan art as a visual language that both expressed and furthered the transformation of Roman society during the rule of Augustus Caesar. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus illustrates how the establishment of monarchy under Augustus Caesar led to the creation of a new system of visual imagery that reflects the consciousness of this transitional age.
Publication Date: 1990 -- online via HathiTrust
- Greenough, Horatio. Letters of Horatio Greenough, American Sculptor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.George Washington statue, index, p. 447
