Titre et auteur:

The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii : ancient ritual, modern muse / Elaine K. Gazda, editor ; with the assistance of Catherine Hammer, Brenda Longfellow, Molly Swetnam-Burland.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : Kelsey Museum of Archaeology : University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2000.
©2000

Description:

xiii, 262 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, an exhibition organized by and exhibited at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and The University of Michigan Museum of Art, October 1 - November 19, 2000.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Oct. 1-Nov. 19, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-261).
1. Introduction : Ancient and modern contexts of the Bacchic murals in the Villa of the Mysteries / Elaine K. Gazda -- 2. The god of the vine : a note on nomenclature / Drew Wilburn -- 3. The geography and history of Campania and Pompeii / Drew Wilburn -- 4. A gendered space? : location and function of Room 5 in the Villa of the Mysteries / Brenda Longfellow -- 5. Women, ritual, and social standing in Roman Italy / Catherine Hammer -- 6. The god of fertility in Room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries / Drew Wilburn -- 7. Bacchus/Liber in Pompeii : a religious context for the Villa of the Mysteries frieze / Molly Swetnam-Burland -- 8. Bacchic imagery and cult practice in Roman Italy / Elizabeth de Grummond -- 9. The search for the origins of the Villa of the Mysteries frieze / Jessica M. Davis -- 10. Nuptial imagery in the Villa of the Mysteries frieze : south Italian and Sicilian precedents / Shoshanna S. Kirk -- 11. Liber and Venus in the Villa of the Mysteries / Brenda Longfellow -- 12. Maria Barosso, Francis Kelsey, and the modern representation of an ancient masterpiece / Elizabeth de Grummond -- 13. Ancient mysteries, modern meanings / Diane Kirkpatrick -- The catalogue : Women and cult in ancient Italy (1-68) ; The Villa of the Mysteries from antiquity to the present (69-111).

Résumé:

This is a catalogue of an exhibition by the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan which focused on a cycle of frescoes found in 1990 at the well-known villa on the outskirts of ancient Pompeii. Probably painted around 60 BC, the cycle depicts young women probably being initiated into the cult of Bacchus (Dionysus) in preparation for marriage. The catalogue presents a number of objects connected with the villa, as well as the reconstruction watercolours commissioned by Francis Willey Kelsey, founder of the museum, from Maria Barosso, an artist working in Rome at the time of the frescoes' discovery. Even more interesting are the ten essays that precede the artefacts, which focus on `women and cult in the art of Roman Italy' and have been developed out of a research group led by Gazda.

ISBN:

9781930561021 (paperback)
1930561024 (paperbacl)

Sujet:

Villa of the Mysteries (Pompeii)
Villa des Mystères (Pompéi)
Villa of the Mysteries frescoes (Mural painting)
Mysteries, Religious.
Women and religion Rome.
Mural painting and decoration Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)
Mystères religieux.
Fresques de la villa des Mystères.
Femmes et religion Rome.
21.11 wall painting.
Buildings.
Mural painting and decoration.
Women and religion.
Muurschilderingen.
Villa dei Misteri.
Women in art
Art, Ancient Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)
Pompeii (Extinct city) Buildings, structures, etc.
Pompéi (Ville ancienne) Constructions.
Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)
Rome (Empire)
Pompéi (ville ancienne) Villa dei misteri.

Classification/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Vedettes secondaires:

Gazda, Elaine K., 1943- editor.
Hammer, Catherine, editor
Longfellow, Brenda, 1973- editor.
Swetnam-Burland, Molly, editor
Gazda, Elaine K., 1943-
Hammer, Catherine
Longfellow, Brenda, 1973-
Swetnam-Burland, Molly
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
University of Michigan. Museum of Art

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 217620
Cote: N5770 .V5 2000
Statut: Disponible