Abstract:This study uncovers ways in which the Roman obsession with the sense of sight is translated into its visual culture. The dissertation has two main goals: to examine the pictorial language of internal viewers in mythological wall paintings from ca. AD 20-79 and suggest ways in which these representations could interact with their audience, provoking or initiating reactions. Although the presence of and emphasis on internal gazes in Roman paintings has been repeatedly noted in prior scholarship, this motif has o… Show more
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