Descripción del proyecto
Un nuevo estudio sobre la antigua Roma aúna «fabricación» y «significado»
Cómo se hacían las cosas en la antigua Roma es un tema fascinante, pero que suele estudiarse como un proceso práctico o técnico. Se sabe poco sobre los aspectos culturales, estéticos y morales. El equipo del proyecto FACERE, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, investigará qué significaba fabricar para los habitantes del Imperio romano. En concreto, se analizará el discurso romano de la fabricación: textos literarios —poesía y prosa en griego y latín— y obras de arte visual, como pinturas, relieves y mosaicos, que representan procesos de fabricación y pueden decirnos cómo pensaban, sentían y hablaban los romanos sobre ellos. En FACERE también se analizará la repercusión de la cultura material en los espectadores romanos, cómo se fabricaban las cosas y cómo se presentaban o imaginaban sus historias de fabricación.
Objetivo
How did the ancient Romans respond to the material world around them? This project, FACERE, proposes a new way of approaching this question. It studies ‘making’ – the processes by which the objects and buildings which surrounded Romans in their daily lives were produced. How things were made in ancient Rome is usually studied as a practical or technical process. However, making also has a wide range of culturally specific aesthetic and moral implications. FACERE breaks new ground by asking not how making was done, but what making meant to the inhabitants of the Roman empire. To answer this question, we analyse the Roman discourse of making: literary texts – poetry and prose in Greek and Latin – and visual art works, such as paintings, reliefs, and mosaics, which represent processes of making and can tell us how Romans thought, felt, and spoke about them. FACERE aims to achieve two key objectives.
First, we will write a new cultural history of ‘Roman making’, adding to our understanding of the technological, logistic, and economic dimensions the crucial new dimension of the cultural values involved in making, in particular its aesthetic and moral complexities. How did making relate to Roman notions about the environment? How did Roman writers and artists depict the ability and agency of different kinds of makers, and how does this relate to their gender, ethnicity, and social status? Were certain ways of making considered superior to others, and why?
Second, FACERE proposes a new way of investigating the impact of material culture on Roman viewers. How things were made, and how their stories of making were presented or imagined, was deeply relevant to what they meant to their ancient viewers, owners, and users. FACERE introduces the innovative analytical concept of ‘madeness’, which allows us to bring ‘making’ and ‘meaning’ together.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
9712CP Groningen
Países Bajos