Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

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Jas' Elsner (University of Oxford) Milette Gaifman (Yale University, Connecticut)

Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

Jas' Elsner (University of Oxford), Milette Gaifman (Yale University, Connecticut), Nathaniel B. Jones (Washington University, St Louis)

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Cambridge University Press
31 August 2025

History of art: ancient & classical art; Carvings: artworks; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Yale Classical Studies

Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art by Jas' Elsner (University of Oxford)

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Edited by: Jas' Elsner (University of Oxford), Milette Gaifman (Yale University, Connecticut), Nathaniel B. Jones (Washington University, St Louis)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009505765
ISBN 10: 1009505769
Series: Yale Classical Studies
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 31 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Ancient relief: terminology, medium, ontology Verity J. Platt; 2. Thinking through marble: early Attic Stelai as lithic technology Caspar Meyer and Chris Pelletieri; 3. The body in relief in archaic funerary sculpture Seth Estrin; 4. Relief in Athenian vase-painting: reflectivity, presence, and pictorial space Guy Hedreen; 5. Sculpture, relief, and the surrounding space: sculpture vs. relief, sculpture as relief Nikolaus Dietrich; 6. Seeing the past: Neo-Attic reliefs as sites of temporal and spatial contact Carolyn M. Laferrière; 7. Remedial relief Nathaniel B. Jones; 8. Foregrounding the background in Roman relief sculpture Jennifer Trimble; 9. Encrusted in ancestors: formal reflections on the funerary reliefs of Palmyra Nicola Barham; 10. Relief on and for the body in late antique numismatic jewelry Ashley Elizabeth Jones.

JAŚ ELSNER is Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford and Humfry Payne Senior Research fellow at Corpus Christi College, as well as being Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago. He has worked on Greek and Roman art of all periods, and especially on sculpture and reliefs. MILETTE GAIFMAN is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art at Yale University. She is the author of Aniconism in Greek Antiquity (2012) and The Art of Libation in Classical Athens (2018), and served as the Coeditor-in-Chief of the The Art Bulletin in 2020–2022. NATHANIEL B. JONES is Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St Louis. He has written on painting, collecting practices, and visual narratives in Greco-Roman antiquity, and is the author of Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome (Cambridge, 2019).