Italy

Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der...

Capua – Grab und Gemeinschaft

Eine kontextuelle Analyse der Nekropole Fornaci (570 bis 400 v. Chr.)

The tombs of pre-Roman Capua are known for their extraordinary finds, yet the excavations in the necropoleis of this most important Campanian centre have left a problematic...

Ein Liber cantus aus dem Veneto (um 1440) – A Veneto Liber cantus (c. 1440)

Fragmente in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München und der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien – Fragments in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

This book results from Robert Klugseder’s discovery of new fragments in Vienna (Fragm. 661) and Margaret Bent’s recognition that they belonged to the same original manuscript as a...

Dekorations- und Wohnkontext

Beseitigung, Restaurierung, Verschmelzung und Konservierung von Wandbemalungen in den kampanischen Antikenstätten

In 1873 August Mau published his ground-breaking discovery that the wall paintings in the houses of Pompeii do not date back to the town’s last twenty or thirty years, before it...

Die Masken aus der Nekropole von Lipari

In the necropolis of Lipari (Italy) a great amount of terracotta masks from the 4th and early 3rd century B. C. have been found –– an important local speciality. Their study as...

Die republikanischen Otiumvillen von Tivoli

The territory of the rural Latin town of Tibur (Tivoli) constituted one of the most important sites of Roman villa culture in the Republican period. In the summertime, Roman...

Selinus II

Die punische Stadt auf der Akropolis

In 409 BC, the Greek colonial town Selinous in Sicily was conquered by the Carthaginians and fell under Punic governance. Having primarily functioned as a military base during the...

The Studiolo of Urbino – An Iconographic Investigation

The “studiolo” of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino, the highlight of the Ducal Palace, is the most complete surviving example of an early Renaissance study. Its decorations...

Krise und Wandel

Süditalien im 4. und 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Internationaler Kongress anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Dieter Mertens

During the fourth and third centuries BC, Sicily and South Italy were the site of almost incessant conflicts between their indigenous peoples, Greek settlers, Punic colonists, and...

Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum

Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik

The Basilica Aemilia in the Forum Romanum is one of the most important buildings of ancient Rome due to its location, size and architecture. It is also especially well preserved...

Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Teil 1: Vom 10. bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts

The illuminated manuscripts from Italy which are held in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München date from the pre-Carolingian period up to the 16th century. The oldest codices...

Die Ehrenbögen in Pompeji

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Fünf Bogenbauten zieren als Ehrenmonumente zentral gelegene Plätze Pompejis. Seit langem sind sie bekannt und...

Funktion und Nutzung der Krypta im Mittelalter

Heiligsprechung und Heiligenverehrung am Beispiel Italien

Under the lasting influence of romantic-mystic views of the 19th and 20th century the function of a crypt within the structure of a church is still a matter of false...

Etruskisch-italische und römisch-republikanische Häuser

In contrast to the tombs and shrines, the pre-Roman houses of Italy have been poorly studied. Although Etruscan studies have for some time been concerned with living quarters of...

Die »ägyptische Grotte« von Vulci

Zum Beginn der Archäologie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin

The Egyptian grotto, as the Isis-Tomb of Vulci was called when it was discovered in the nineteenth century, is one of the most prominent tombs of the orientalising period in...

Brunnen in den Städten des westlichen Römischen Reiches

The abundance of water in Roman cities was celebrated already in antiquity and became manifest in numerous different buildings. The present study discusses public and private...

Die Casa del Fauno in Pompeji (VI 12) 1

Stratigraphische Befunde der Ausgrabungen in den Jahren 1961 bis 1963 (von Andrea Faber). Bauhistorische Analyse (von Adolf Hoffmann nach Vorarbeiten von René von Schöfer und Arnold Tschira)

The Casa del Fauno (VI 12,2) is among the largest and most wellfurnished Pompeian houses buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. This volume presents the results of...

Ruhr Museum. Katalog der etruskischen und italischen Antiken

Mit einigen Stücken aus dem Museum Folkwang Essen

The present volume presents the about 200 objects of the Etruscans and other Italic cultures in the Ruhr Museum and some objects of the Museum Folkwang at Essen in a complete...

Die römischen Amphoren im Umland von Mainz

In this study the author assembles the Roman amphora of the area around the German city of Mainz. All pieces are documented with fotos and descriptions. Analyses of Mediterranian...

Der Zeuskult bei den Westgriechen

This volume compiles for the first time a comprehensive survey of different ways and cults of worship of Zeus in the Magna Graecia and Sicily. The author uses all available...