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Author : Sheila Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521764506
The first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE.
Author : Sheila Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521854986
This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the large number of Greek portraits known only through Roman 'copies'. In focusing on a series of images that have previously been ignored, Dillon investigates the range of strategies and modes utilized in these portraits to construct their subject's identity. Her methods undermine two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that is was only in the late Hellenistic period, under Roman influence, that Greek portraits exhibited a wide range of styles, including descriptive realism; and second, that in most cases, one can easily tell a subject's public role - that is, whether he is a philosopher of an orator - from the visual traits used in this portrait. The sculptures studied here instead show that the proliferation of portrait styles takes place much earlier, in the late Classical period; and that the identity encoded in these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized. Despite the fact that these portraits lack the one feature most prized by scholars of ancient portraiture - a name - they are evidence of utmost importance for the history of Greek portraiture.
Author : Catherine M. Keesling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107162235
This book lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece.
Author : Joan Breton Connelly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0691127468
Cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. The author presents a picture of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them (e.g. the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias) - to basket bearers and handmaidens.
Author : Tracene Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429648502
Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the predominant female in the Roman imperial family. The book provides the most comprehensive examination of all extant coins of Livia to date, and provides one of the first studies on the images on Roman coins as gender-infused designs, which created a visual dialogue regarding Livia’s power and gender-roles in relation to those of male members of the imperial family. While the appearance of Roman women on coins was not entirely revolutionary, having roughly coincided with the introduction of images of powerful Roman statesmen to coins in the late 40s BCE, the degree to which Livia came to be commemorated on coins in the provinces and in Rome was unprecedented. This volume provides unique insights into the impact of these representations of Livia, both on coins and in other visual media. Julia Augusta: Images of Rome’s First Empress on the Coins of the Roman Empire will be of great interest to students of women and imperial imagery in the Roman Empire, as well as the importance of visual representation and Roman imperial ideology.
Author : Olga Palagia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781614513537
The Handbook of Greek Sculpture aims to provide a detailed examination of current research and directions in the field. Bringing together an international cast of contributors from Greece, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, the volume incorporates new areas of research, such as the sculptures of Messene and Macedonia, sculpture in Roman Greece, and the contribution of Greek sculptors in Rome, as well as important aspects of Greek sculpture like techniques and patronage. The written sources (literary and epigraphical) are explored in dedicated chapters, as are function and iconography and the reception of Greek sculpture in modern Europe. Inspired by recent exhibitions on Lysippos and Praxiteles,the book also revisits the style and the personal contributions of the great masters.
Author : Molly Lindner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472118953
Molly M. Lindner's new book examines the sculptural presentation of the Vestal Virgins, who, for more than eleven hundred years, dedicated their lives to the goddess Vesta, protector of the Roman state. Though supervised by a male priest, the Pontifex Maximus, they had privileges beyond those of most women; like Roman men, they dispensed favors and influence on behalf of their clients and relatives. The recovery of the Vestals' house, and statues of the priestesses, was an exciting moment in Roman archaeology. In 1883 Rodolfo Lanciani, Director of Antiquities for Rome, discovered the first Vestal statues. Newspapers were filled with details about the huge numbers of sculptures, inscriptions, jewelry, coins, and terracotta figures. Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome investigates what images of long-dead women tell us about what was important to them. It addresses why portraits were made, and why their portraits—first set up in the late 1st or 2nd century CE—began to appear so much later than portraits of other nonimperial women and other Roman priestesses. The author sheds light on identifying a Vestal portrait among those of other priestesses, and considers why Vestal portraits do not copy each other's headdresses and hairstyles. Fourteen extensively illustrated chapters and a catalog of all known portraits help consider historical clues embedded in the hairstyles and facial features of the Vestals and other women of their day. What has appeared to be a mute collection of marble portraits has been given a voice through this book.
Author : Sharon L. James,Sheila Dillon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119025542
Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world. The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity
Author : Basil Dufallo,Riemer A. Faber
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472133406
Examines in detail the local, historical, and material circumstances that distinguish different types of Roman Hellenism
Author : Alicia J. Batten,Kelly Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684660
Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing and defending identity. The volume begins by reviewing how scholars in the fields of classics, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology examine dress. The second section then looks at materials, including depictions of clothing in sculpture and in Egyptian mummy portraits. The third (and largest) part of the book then examines dress in specific contexts, beginning with Greece and Rome and going on to Jewish and Christian dress, with a specific focus on the intersection between dress, clothing and religion. By combining essays from over twenty scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a unique overview of different approaches to and contexts of dress in one volume, leading to a greater understanding of dress both within ancient societies and in the contemporary world.
Author : Nigel Spivey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521760317
Explains the social function and aesthetic achievement of Greek sculpture from c.750 BC to the end of antiquity.
Author : Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118839423
Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. Uniquely intersperses chapters devoted to major periods of Greek art from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, with chapters containing discussions of important contextual themes across all of the periods Contextual chapters illustrate how a range of factors, such as the urban environment, gender, markets, and cross-cultural contact, influenced the development of art Chronological chapters survey the appearance and development of key artistic genres and explore how artifacts and architecture of the time reflect these styles Offers a variety of engaging and informative pedagogical features to help students navigate the subject, such as timelines, theme-based textboxes, key terms defined in margins, and further readings. Information is presented clearly and contextualized so that it is accessible to students regardless of their prior level of knowledge A book companion website is available at www.wiley.gom/go/greekart with the following resources: PowerPoint slides, glossary, and timeline
Author : Jennifer Trimble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521825153
This book explains why Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms.
Author : Glenys Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521842730
Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.
Author : Przemysław Siekierka,Krystyna Stebnicka,Aleksander Wolicki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1259 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110644289
This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female citizens and foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Based on the collected evidence, the authors analyse the phenomenon of honorific inscriptions for women as an important symptom of change of citizen mentality. Pointing to the political context in which such honours were bestowed, the phrasing of the texts, character of praiseworthy actions, and the fact that these honours were carved in stone and set up in conspicuous places in cities all reflect what the male part of the city populace thought about women in general and their presence in public spaces in particular. The book is a helpful resource for all those interested in ancient history, social history, and gender studies.
