Roman portraits in context /
The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2008.
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Colección: | Image & context ;
v. 2. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The so-called Roman private portrait
- Corporates spaces, houses, villas and tombs
- The material of Roman portraits
- Statuary body types of Roman men: all about status?
- Abbreviated formats
- Selves and others: ways of expressing identity in the Roman male portrait
- Roman women in public
- Representing the Roman emperor
- Power, honour, and memory.