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The Roman Nude - Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300 (Paperback)
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The Roman Nude - Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300 (Paperback)
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 guide 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 its
subjects, it investigates how this tradition arose, and how the
nudity of these portraits was meant to be understood by
contemporary viewers. And, since the Romans also employed a range
of costumes for their statues (toga, armour, Greek philosopher's
cloak), it asks, `What could the nude images express that other
costumes could not?' It is Christopher 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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