Unbound from Rome

Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, ca. 650-250 BCE

John North Hopkins

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Yale University Press
09 January 2024

History of architecture

An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome’s ever-changing political boundaries

Roman art and architecture is typically understood as being bound in some ways to a political event or as a series of aesthetic choices and experiences stemming from a center in Rome itself. Moving beyond the misleading catchall label “Roman,” John North Hopkins aims to untangle the many peoples whose diverse cultures and traditions contributed to Rome’s visual culture over a four-hundred-year time span across the first millennium BCE.

Hopkins carefully reconsiders some of the period’s most iconic works by way of the many practices and peoples bound up with them. Some of these include the extraordinary and complex effort to build the Temple of Jupiter; the creative actions and diverse encounters tied to luxury objects like the Ficoroni Cista; and the important meanings held by sacred temple sculpture and votive offerings through their making and subsequent practices of devotion.

A key purpose of this book is to question an idea of Rome that has focused on elite production and the textual record; Hopkins instead calls attention to the lesser-known—often silenced—actors who were integral players. The result is a deep understanding of a diverse and historically rich Italic and Mediterranean world, as well as the myriad cultures, communities, and individuals who would have made and experienced art within and around the changing political boundaries of Rome.

By: John North Hopkins
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9780300270037
ISBN 10: 0300270038
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 09 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John North Hopkins is associate professor of art history at New York University. They are the author of The Genesis of Roman Architecture, which won numerous accolades, including the 2018 Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.

Reviews for Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, ca. 650-250 BCE

“A splendid accomplishment and a must-read for cultural historians of the ancient Mediterranean, Unbound from Rome upends assumptions about the art of ancient Italy. The ‘many makers and materials’ that come to life in this beautifully crafted book have finally received the sophisticated treatment they deserve.”—Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University “Unbound from Rome is a rigorously researched and important work from a scholar who has established themself as an authority in the field.”—Seth Bernard, University of Toronto “An engaging and highly original read that will undoubtedly change the course of the debate on the period, but, perhaps even more importantly, that brings early Rome within the broader theoretical and interdisciplinary discourse on art and society.”—Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan