Like Incarnations of the Stars, they Illuminate Death. The Zodiac as a Symbol of the Eternity of Aristocratic Power in Roman Astrological Illustrated Calendars
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https://doi.org/10.24310/mhnh.vi19.15415Keywords:
Zodiac, Imperial art, Roman Aristocracy, Iconography of the monthsAbstract
The main feature of the astrological illustrated calendars consists in the representation of the twelve months of the year as personifications of the respective Zodiac signs, or of the relative tutelary deities, and the latter partially replaced, in the Late Antiquity, by the images of the deities connected to the main monthly religious festivities. This papers is focused on the analysis of socio-cultural dynamics and mechanisms of visual communication through which the members of the Roman upper class use the images of Zodiac in figurative calendars to express the idea of the eternity of their power and their high status, according to
cultural prototypes and iconographic models of official imperial art.
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