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The Column of Marcus Aurelius re-viewed - John Scheid et Valérie Huet (sous la direction de), en collaboration avec le Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Rome) et le Centre Louis Gernet (Paris), LA COLONNE AURÉLIENNE. AUTOUR DE LA COLONNE AURÉLIENNE. GESTE ET IMAGE SUR LA COLONNE DE MARC AURÈLE Á ROME (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Religieuses vol. 108; Brepols, Turnhout 2000). Pp. 288, 176 figs. ISBN 2-503-50965-7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

Richard Brilliant
Richard Brilliant*
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Columbia University, New York
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 15 , 2002 , pp. 499 - 506
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References

1 Transl. Taylor, Th., The dissertations of Maxmus Tyrius (London 1804; ed. H. Hobein 1910) 127–28Google Scholar.

2 Still one of the best collections of photogrpahs of the Aurelian Column was published by Domus Editoriale, Milano, in 1957: G. Becatti (ed.), Colonna di Marco Aurelio.

3 It should be noted here, and with respect to Eisner's paper (see below), that Lehmann-Hartleben, K.. Die Traianssäule (Berlin 1926)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, is subtitled “Ein römisches Kunstwerk zu Beginn der Spätantike”

4 Wegner, M., “Die kunstgeschichtliche Stellung der Markussäule,” Jdl 46 (1931) 61–174 Google Scholar; and Pirson, F., “Style and message in the Column of Marcus Aurelius,” PBSR 64 (1996) 139–79Google Scholar.

5 See the old, often neglected, but still useful work of Will, E., Le relief cultuel gréco-romain (BEFAR 183, 1955)Google Scholar, esp. 125-219 on Mithraic imagery, and 219-55 on frontality.

6 Recent excavations in Trajan's Forum have found no sign of a Temple to the Deified Trajan beyond his Column. If the Temple did not exist, then the skyline between the two Columns might have been open.

7 Hölscher follows the lead of Wegner (supra n.4), Pirson (supra n.4), and Touati, A. M. Leander, The great Trajanic frieze (Stockholm 1987)Google Scholar.

8 See Burke, P., “Context in context,” Common knowledge 8 (2002) 152–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 See in this context Martin, J.-P., Providentia deorum. Aspects religieux du pouvoir romain (CollEFR 61, 1982) esp. 320–65Google Scholar, on Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

10 I am currently engaged in writing a book provisionally entitled The concept of style and the problem of Roman art, which will address, inter alia, some of the issues raised here and elsewhere by J. Eisner.