Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Although their identities were certainly known in antiquity, these portraits have lost their names through the accident of preservation. In focusing on a series of images that have been previously ignored, Dillon investigates the range of strategies and modes utilized in these portraits to construct their subject's identity. Zusammenfassung Offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Klappentext
This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Although their identities were certainly known in antiquity, these portraits have lost their names through the accident of preservation. In focusing on a series of images that have been previously ignored, Dillon investigates the range of strategies and modes utilized in these portraits to construct their subject's identity.


Inhalt
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.

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