The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican Augustan Rome

by Eleanor Winsor Leach

The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love for the organization of space that can be seen as clearly in their pictorial arts as in their arrangement of public and private architecture. In this interdisciplinary work Eleanor Leach links the depiction of landscape in Roman literature and in Roman painting during a formative period of Roman art. In relating the two fields, she focuses on the response of audiences, particularly the way in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691042373
• ISBN13: 9780691042374
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 3.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.0" x 10.3"