Fine arts: art forms

Living in a World of Change: New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange and Transfer in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

In the period from about 200 B.C. to the early Roman imperial period, all regions of the Mediterranean underwent a profound process of political, economic, and cultural...

Colour Schemes in Roman Architecture

Aesthetics, Semantics, and Regional Appropriation

Roman architecture was characterised by a rich palette of colours, achieved through the use of natural coloured stones and painting. This conference volume is the first book...

Das severische Vexillationskastell Myd(---) und die spätantiken castra Madensia / Gheriat el-Garbia am limes Tripolitanus (Libyen)

II Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen im Kastell, im Steinbruch, in den Heiligtümern und am Beobachtungsturm 2009-2010

The Roman fort of Gheriat el-Garbia is located 280 km south of Tripoli in the pre-desert, above an oasis, on the central route into the Fezzan. Along with Bu Ngem and Ghadames, it...

Ausgrabungen in der Unterstadt von Boğazköy II

Der Große Tempel von Ḫattuša, die Magazine in seinem Umfeld und das sogenannte Südareal

The so-called Great Temple and the monumental buildings in its vicinity characterize the Hittite capital Ḫattuša (UNESCO World Heritage Site) until today. The detailed...

Die Mainzer Salus

Gesellschaft und Stadtkultur im Norden der Germania Superior

The volume at hand introduces a slightly less than life-size female figure with naked torso and hip cloak made of sandstone that was found in the “Zollhafen” of Mainz in October...

Die italische Terra Sigillata mit Auflagenverzierung

Katalog der Applikenmotive

Ludwig Ohlenroth, who was born in Augsburg in 1892 and died there in 1959, was not only active as an excavator and heritage conservation officer for several decades, particularly...

Der gesprengte Kreis

Max Beckmanns Schüler zwischen Realismus und Abstraktion

Much like Max Beckmann, his master students faced defamation, marginalization, and persecution at the hands of the Nazis. A significant portion of their work was lost or destroyed...

Egon Altdorf 1922–2008

Die Kunst der inneren Erneuerung: Skulptur, Graphik, Glasfenster, Lyrik

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Der hundertste Geburtstag von Egon Altdorf hat seinen Sohn veranlasst das Gesamtwerk seines Vaters von einem...

Die illuminierten Handschriften französischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Vom 15. Jahrhundert bis um 1540 plus flämische und niederländische Handschriften

This volume concludes the comprehensive description of all French manuscripts in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich that are decorated with book decoration, whereby the...

Ceramic Technology, Production and Use in an Urban Settlement on the Middle Nile

The Pottery Assemblage from Late Meroitic Hamadab, Sudan (2nd to 4th century A.D.)

The presentation of a large ceramic corpus from Hamadab, an ancient town on the Middle Nile, provides an important contribution to the research on Meroitic pottery. The systematic...

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte 8-2021

Imaginum orbis. Bilderwelten zwischen Spätantike und Byzanz. Festschrift anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Johannes G. Deckers

This book is a commemorative publication on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Deckers, former professor of Byzantine art history at the...

Die Sammlung Kiseleff im Martin-von-Wagner-Museum der Universität Würzburg

Teil I: Ägyptische und koptische Antiken

In 1982, in the 400th year of the second founding of the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Alexander Kiseleff (1919–2002) donated a large part of his private collection of...

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog

Band 8: Bildband, Neuerwerbungen

The five catalogue volumes offer detailed descriptions of over 9,500 cradle prints in 17,400 copies. Two index volumes facilitate access: Volume 6 contains a multi-part printer's...

Das severische Vexillationskastell Myd(---) / Gheriat el-Garbia am limes Tripolitanus (Libyen)

I Forschungsgeschichte, Vermessung, Prospektionen und Funde 2009-2010

In 2009/10, four seasons were conducted in the Roman fort located 280 km south of Tripoli. The focus of the interdisciplinary project, funded by LMUexcellent, was the fort, built...

Appropriation Processes of Statue Schemata in the Roman Provinces | Aneignungsprozesse antiker Statuenschemata in den römischen Provinzen

The majority of ancient statues can be typologised on the basis of formal overlaps, i.e. arranged in 'schemes'. Individual statue schemes were handed down over centuries in ever...

Emil Alexander Hopfgarten

zum 200. Geburtstag

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Die Autorin Felicitas Reusch ist auf die Spurensuche des 1821 in Berlin geborenen Bildhauers Emil Alexander...

Der Rheingau von Wiesbaden bis Lorch im 19. Jahrhundert

Zeichnungen von Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820–1893) aus dem Städel

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Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820-1893) war ein Frankfurter Architektur- und Landschaftsmaler der Romantik. Seine...

Italische und nordafrikanische Lampen des 1. bis 5. Jahrhunderts

Römische Lampen der Sammlung K. Wilhelm

In addition to some Italian picture lamps of the 1st century A.D., the main focus of K. Wilhelm's lamp collection is on 41 lamps of the middle and late imperial period produced in...

Italische Terra Sigillata aus Iuvavum/Salzburg

Untersuchungen zur Siedlungs- und Handelsgeschichte des augusteischen vicus und des municipium Claudium Iuvavum

Due to its large scale distribution and chronological relevance, Italian Terra Sigillata, which was produced in large quantities in Upper, Central and Southern Italy as well as...

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

Identity and cultural exchange in ancient Cilicia: New results and future Perspectives Internationales Kolloquium 18. – 19. Mai 2018 in München

The publication on Rough Cilicia "Identity and cultural Exchange in Ancient Cilicia: New Results and Future Perspectives" combines the results of a workshop held at the...