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Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture
Contexts, Subjects, and Styles
Author: Dillon Sheila
Offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
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Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture
Publication date: 05-2012
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Publication date: 05-2012
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Ancient greek portrait sculpture: contexts, subjects, and styles
Publication date: 04-2006
238 p. · 22.2x28.5 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 04-2006
238 p. · 22.2x28.5 cm · Hardback
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This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. 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. This study calls into question two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that it 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 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 expressed by these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized.
1. Facing up to anonymity; 2. Making portraits of the Greeks; 3. Displaying portraits of the Greeks; 4. The appearance of Greek portraits; 5. Greek portraits in practice.
Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010) and co-editor of A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (2012).
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