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From face to face : recarving of Roman portraits and the late-antique portrait arts /
This book is based on an investigation of more than five hundred recarved portraits. It includes analyses of different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localised workshops. The different recarving methods have made it possible to suggest classifiable categories, w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Monumenta Graeca et Romana ;
v. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is based on an investigation of more than five hundred recarved portraits. It includes analyses of different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localised workshops. The different recarving methods have made it possible to suggest classifiable categories, which together underpin a hypothesis that the late-antique portrait style is a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time. The practice of portrait recarving emerged due to economic, political, religious and ideological factors, and was influenced by the cultural-historical changes of Lat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004182714 9004182713 9789004192324 9004192328 |