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The Roman Nude - Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300 (Hardcover)
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The Roman Nude - Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men
were portrayed naked holding weapons--the naked emperor might wield
the thunderbolt of Jupiter--while Roman women assumed the guise of
the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images,
modern viewers are usually unsympathetic, finding them incongruous,
even tasteless. They are mostly written off as just another example
of Roman "bad taste."
This book offers a new approach. Comprehensively illustrated with
black and white photographs of nude Romans represented in a wide
range of artistic media, it investigates how this tradition arose,
and how the nudity of these images was meant to be understood by
contemporary viewers. And, since the Romans also employed a variety
of other costumes for their statues (toga, armor, Greek
philosopher's cloak), it asks, "What could nudity express that
other costumes could not?" It is Hallett's claim that--looked at in
this way--these "Roman nudes" turn out to be documents of the first
importance for the cultural historian.
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