Understanding the Post-Pompeian Era. Wall painting in the Roman Empire (AD 79-395)
| dc.contributor.advisor | Moormann, E.M. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Haan, J.B.H. de | |
| dc.contributor.author | Koeleman, F.A. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-08-25 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Roman wall painting has been studied extensively based on the excavations in the city of Pompeii. Already in the nineteenth century four Pompeian Styles were defined by August Mau, who studied the wall paintings dating up to 79 AD, the year in which Mount Vesuvius erupted. Naturally, the destruction of Pompeii did not mean the end of Roman wall painting. Research on post-Pompeian painting, however, has been relatively scarce, and as a result knowledge of its development remains largely obscured. It is the aim of this study to find a way to create a clear overview of the wall paintings that have been excavated and preserved up to this day, in order to analyse trends within the Roman Empire until its division in two in 395 AD. To this end a database, structured according to the principle of Linked Open Data, has been created, containing images of these post-Pompeian Roman wall paintings. By making use of several multilingual classification systems, an ontology was defined in order to annotate them. While the entire dataset is available online, and may be explored or added to by those interested, the research results themselves are presented in this thesis. With the aid of visualisation tools a set of questions were answered, which may provide leads for further study. Statistical analysis along with digital art historical methods have been employed to map developments on a grand scale, as well as to perform highly detailed case studies. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/622 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Letteren | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Art and visual culture | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Researchmasters | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Researchmaster | en_US |
| dc.title | Understanding the Post-Pompeian Era. Wall painting in the Roman Empire (AD 79-395) | en_US |