Starting from Places: Continuous Narration and Discontinuous Perspectives in Roman Art.

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    • Subject Terms:
      ROMAN painting; SPACE & time in art; ART & mythology; THEMES in painting; PERSPECTIVE (Art); POLYPHEMUS (Greek mythology)
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      The phenomenon of continuous narration—the representation of multiple narrative moments in a single visual field—in Roman painting of the first centuries BCE and CE attests to the ways time and space could be creatively connected in ancient art. This pictorial device animates painting in its interplay with the viewer, at once multiplying points of view and mediating between internal and external images. It thus models Roman attitudes toward not only the representation of the world but also the interpretation of pictures. In so doing, it demonstrates a significant form of material agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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