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A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods.

Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natural and built environment, as well as ideas about nature and art, were intertwined with architectural and decorative trends.

This illustrated volume examines how representations of real and depicted landscapes, and the merging of both in visual space, contributed to the creation of novel languages of art and architecture. Drawing on a diverse body of archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence, this study applies an ecocritical lens that moves beyond the limits of traditional iconography. Chapters consider, for example, how garden designs and paintings appropriated the cultures and ecosystems brought under Roman control and the ways miniature landscape paintings chronicled the transformation of the Italian shoreline with colonnaded villas, pointing to the changing relationship of humans with nature. Making a timely and original contribution to current discourses on ecology and art and architectural history, Shaping Roman Landscape reveals how Roman ideas of landscape, and the decorative strategies at imperial domus and villa complexes that gave these ideas shape, were richly embedded with meanings of nature, culture, and labor.

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• Chapter 1 Ecocritical Approaches to the Roman Landscape(9)
• Chapter 2 Changing Landscapes(27)
• Chapter 3 Environmental Considerations in Luxury Villa Design(47)
• Chapter 4 Between Conceptual and Perceptual Space: Miniature Landscapes(73)
• Chapter 5 Simulacra and Simulation: Garden Paintings(101)
• Chapter 6 The Remediation and Intermediality of Landscape(125)
• Acknowledgments(152)
• Notes(154)
• Bibliography(173)
• Illustration Credits(197)
• Index of Ancient Texts Cited(198)
• Index(199)

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CHOICE Review

Making use of various ancient literary texts, paintings of Roman gardens and landscapes, and the architectural remains of Roman imperial and other elite houses and villas of the late republic and earlier empire, Zarmakoupi's excellent book employs new "ecocritical" approaches to understanding how Roman architects and their patrons engaged with nature and various landscape settings in their construction of space to give form to their domestic architecture. Zarmakoupi (Univ. of Pennsylvania) focuses on imperial and other elite residences in Rome, near Rome, and on the Bay of Naples. The book is well written and includes many plans and the latest reconstructions (both computer-generated three-dimensional color images and black-and-white line drawings) of these luxury estates, some of which are well known, others less so. In addition, there are many high-quality color illustrations of the architectural remains and garden and landscape wall paintings depicting Roman-style homes and villas. This is a book for those concerned with ecology and the study of art history and architecture, and the reader will greatly profit from the author's new ideas and approaches to the material evidence. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. --John Pollini, University of Southern California

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Mantha Zarmakoupi is Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor of Roman Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.