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- Portraits were regarded as substitutes for living emperors and expressed the relationship between the ruling power and local elites, notably in Mediterranean urban centres, where local benefactors were often commemorated with portrait statues.
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The development of Roman portraiture is characterized by a stylistic cycle that alternately emphasized realistic or idealizing elements. Each stage of Roman portraiture can be described as alternately “veristic” or “classicizing,” as each imperial dynasty sought to emphasize certain aspects of representation in an effort to legitimize ...
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Portraits, which we shall define here as recognizable likenesses of individuals, were ubiquitous in the ancient Roman world. People of the empire did not merely observe these images, but interacted with them in politics, religious ritual, and even the most banal of everyday activities.
Mar 13, 2009 · It is argued in this book that our understanding and contemplation of a Roman portrait statue is greatly enriched, when we consider its wider historical context, its original setting, the circumstances of its production and style, and its base which, in many cases, bore a text that contributed to the rhetorical power of the image.
To cover all these issues, she draws on an enormously wide range of primary evidence, including inscriptions, literary sources, and portraits in different media and from all parts of the Roman Empire.
- Barbara E. Borg
- 2012
Sep 20, 2016 · But how should that gesture be understood? How does Optatian play with Roman ideas about portraits? And what might our case study suggest about shifting attitudes towards representation in the early fourth century?
- Michael James Squire
- 2016
Summary. Roman portraiture is noted for its verism, and for the imitation of imperial images by private citizens of the Roman empire, notably in their funerary monuments. Portraits were regarded as substitutes for living emperors and expressed the relationship between the ruling power and local elites, notably in Mediterranean urban centres ...
Dec 13, 2011 · Roman Portraits in Context provides a vivid account of the important role that portraits played in the daily life of the Roman empire; portrait statues were the focus of public rituals, places where people gathered and did things, where they remembered and celebrated the portrait subject and the reasons why she or he was honored, and where they ...
