Everything Is Illuminated

Studies on Graeco-Roman Iconography in Honour of Arpad M. Nagy

edited by Kata Endreffy, Christopher A. Faraone and Hans Rupprecht Goette

Extent: 500 pages

Publisher: L’ERMA di Bretschneider

Subjects: Art & Art History, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Studia Archaeologica

Series volume number: 274

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2025)

ISBN: 9788891336248

6.65 x 9.41 inches

Price: $400.00

In stock

Add to cart

Synopsis
Contributing Authors

This volume brings together essays by colleagues and students of Arpad M. Nagy in recognition of his enduring contribution to the study of Graeco- Roman art and archaeology. Uniting scholars from Hungary, Germany, and the wider international community, Everything Is Illuminated bears witness to Nagy’s lasting influence on the field of classical studies, reflecting the breadth of his scholarly interests and the methodological precision that has characterized his work. Focusing on the interpretation of ancient imagery – from engraved gemstones and painted vases to monumental sculpture – the essays address the interaction between visual and textual narratives, the symbolism of personal and communal identity, and the transformation of forms across time and cultural contexts. Together, they offer new perspectives on the visual culture of the ancient Mediterranean and on the interpretative approaches that continue to shape its study.

Edited by Kata Endreffy
Edited by Christopher A. Faraone
Edited by Hans Rupprecht Goette

Other Titles in this Series

Le Donne in Etruria

Volume 52

by Antonia Rallo

L’Hammam nell’Islam occidentale fra l’VIII e il XIV secolo

Volume 176

by Adriana De Miranda

Citta romane di fondazione

Volume 130

by Marta Conventi

L’Antichita marginale

Continuita dell'arte provinciale romana nel Rinascimento

Volume 68

by Giuliana Calcani

The Athena Pronaia Tholos of Theodorus Phoceaus at Delphi

A Redesigning Theory

Volume 266

by Attilio Pizzigoni

Potaissa

L'arte romana in una citta della Dacia

Volume 220

by Mihai Barbulescu

Building Roman Greece

Innovation in Vaulted Construction in the Peloponnese

Volume 206

by Paolo Vitti

Il Tornio, la nave e le terre lontane

Ceramografici attici in Magna Grecia nella seconda meta del V sec. a. C. Rotte e vie di distribuzione

Volume 152

by Giada Giudice

Camillo Ramelli e la cultura antiquaria dell’ottocento

Volume 149

edited by M. Federica Petraccia

Vasche di eta romana in marmi bianchi e colorati

Volume 79

by Annarena Ambrogi

Goktepe Marbles

White, Black and Two-Tone

Volume 71

edited by Donato Attanasio, Matthias Bruno, Walter Prochaska and Ali Bahadir Yavuz

El priscilianismo. Arqueologia y prosopografia

Estudio de un movimiento aristocratico en la Gallaecia tardorromana

Volume 222

by Diego Piay Augusto

The Art of Praxiteles V

The Last Years of the Sculptor (around 340 to 326 BC)

Volume 198

by Antonio Corso

Theodor Mommsen e il Lazio Antico

Giornata di Studi in memoria dell'illustre storico, epigrafista e giurista

Volume 172

edited by Francesco Mannino, Marco Mannino and Daniele F. Maras

Fonti letterarie greche e latine per la storia della Lucania tirrenica

Volume 115

by Fernando La Greca

People, Water and Grain

The beginning of domestication in the Sahara and the Nile Valley

Volume 98

by Barbara Barich

Archaeology on Shifting Ground

Rodolfo Lanciani and Rome 1871 - 1914

Volume 231

by Susan M. Dixon

Epigrafia di Bolsena etrusca

Volume 54

by Alessandro Morandi

Selinunte

Citta Antiche in Sicilia, 1

Volume 179

by Sebastiano Tusa

The Art of Praxiteles

Volume 133

by Antonio Corso

Monumenti e Culture nell’Appennino in eta’ romana

Atti del Convegno. Sestino 1989, 12 novembre

Volume 65

edited by Gian Carlo Renzi

Nautica Antica

Itinerari nel mondo della navigazione,tra storia, archeologia ed etnografia

Volume 254

by Stefano Medas

The Manuscript Book

A Compendium of Codicology

Volume 214

by Maria Luisa Agati

Da Cereatae Marianae all’abbazia di Casamari

Volume 207

by Alessandra Cerro

Water architecture in the lands of Syria: the Water-Wheels

Volume 156

by Adriana De Miranda

Villae romanae nell’ager Bruttius

Il paesaggio rurale calabrese durante il dominio romano

Volume 107

by Simona Accardo

Officine ceramiche di eta regia

Produzione di ceramica in impasto a Roma dalla fine dell'VIII alla fine del VI secolo a.C

Volume 80

by Paolo Carafa

Villae romanas en Asturias

Volume 249

edited by Diego Piay Augusto and Patricia A. Arguelles Alvarez

Il Mondo dell’archeologia cristiana

Volume 225

by Giuseppina Cerulli Irelli

Lucus Feroniae

Mosaici e pavimenti marmorei

Volume 195

by Matthias Bruno and Fulvia Bianchi

Similar Books

A Collaborative Tapestry in Honour of Shirley Ann Brown / Une fresque brodée en l’honneur de Shirley Ann Brown

The Bayeux Tapestry Seen by her Colleagues and Friends / La Tapisserie de Bayeux vue par ses collègues et amis

edited by Sylvette Lemagnen and Gale Owen-Crocker

Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum

From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period

Volume 3

By (author) Abbas Alizadeh

Apsaros

A Roman Fort on the Colchis Coast

Volume 15

by Radoslaw Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski

Atmosphere

Conceptualizing Methods in Fashion Graphics

By (author) Marius Janusauskas

Balthasar Caymox of Nuremberg

Early Modern German Print Publishers: Popular Prints of the Seventeenth Century

By (author) John Roger Paas

Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire

Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record of the 40s BC

Volume 2

edited by Kresimir Matijevic, Rubina Raja and Jorg Rupke

Catastrophes in Context

Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World

Edited by Rubina Raja Edited by Andrew Wilson

Conservation of Design

Prototypes to Afterlives

By (author) Sarah Barack By (author) Kate Wight Tyler By (author) Jessica Walthew

Dietrichstein Manuscript Fragments

Codices from the Moravian Library

By (author) Eduard Lazorík

Eastbourne Roman Villa

Edited by Helen Warren Contributions by David Rudling

Equine Currency: Thessalian Coinage and the Horse in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

By (author) Rosanagh Mack

Etruscan and Roman Hellenistic Anatomical ex votos

Reassessing Popular Religious Expressions in Central Italy

Volume 8

By (author) Fabiana Fabbri

Feminist Friendships, Collaborations, and Networks in the Visual Arts

Edited by Jennifer Griffiths Edited by Andrea Pearson

Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora

Volume 19

by John McK. Camp II

Holbein’s Wit

Pictorial Ingenuity in Renaissance Art

Volume 17

By (author) Alexander Marr

Holy Laboratory

Altars and Sacred Spaces in Venice ca. 1300-1797

Housing the Ancestors

Courtyard Palaces of the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant

Volume 7

By (author) Holly Winter

Imag(in)ing Samothrace

From Homer to the HoloLens

Edited by Bonna D. Wescoat Edited by Ellen M. Archie Edited by Rebecca A. Salem

Invisible Labour in Antiquity

Visualizing Obscure Work in the Ancient Mediterannean and West Asia

Volume 1

edited by Nathanael Andrade and Rubina Raja

Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD): Current Research Questions and Perspectives

HAEMUS Companion to the Late Antique Balkans 1

Volume 4

Edited by Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska

Legal Visuality

Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period

By (author) Silvia Tita

Megaliths and Graphical Markers in Landscapes

New Techniques of Documentation

Edited by Esther Navajo Samaniego Edited by Alia Vázquez Martínez

Monastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch)

Production, Use, and Contexts

Contributions by Daniel Galadza Contributions by Adrian C. Pirtea Contributions by Habib Ibrahim Contributions by…

Naples as Laboratory / Laboratorium Neapel

Style Options, Artistic Rivalry and Self Fashioning in Neapolitan Baroque Painting / Plurale Stilbildung, Kunstlerkonkurrenz und Self Fashioning in der neapolitanischen Barockmalerei

edited by Elisabeth Oy-Marra and Heiko Damm