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The Museum of Augustus : the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin poetry /

In this work of original scholarship, Peter Heslin argues that paintings of the Trojan War, public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected poems by Virgil, Horace and Propertius. In so doing, he reconstructs a world in which Augustan-era art served as inspiration for some of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heslin, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2015]
Subjects:
Mural painting and decoration, Roman > Themes, motives.
Trojan War > Art and the war.
Mythology, Greek, in art > Influence.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Art and literature.
Temples, Roman.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: temples, real and imaginary
  • Art in Pompeii
  • Sources for the Temple of Apollo
  • The Temple's east wall
  • The remainder of the portico
  • Copies and models
  • Art and poetry in Rome
  • The Portico of Philippus
  • Imaginary temples
  • Conclusion: art, architecture, and poetry.