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Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture - Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (Hardcover)
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Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture - Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (Hardcover)
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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.
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