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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 |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Editorial note; Acknowledgments; List of diagrams and sketches; List of figures and photo credits; Introduction The history of sculpture reuse and related problems; The Stand der Forschung of sculpture reuse; The identification of recarved sculpture; Organisation of the material; Terminology; Definitions of "style"; The function of recarved portraits; Chapter One The reuse of sculpture and recarving of portraits; Criteria for identification; Spolia and the recarving of portraiture; The reuse of private sculpture; Relocated and discarded sculpture; Portrait heads in secondary contexts.