From face to face : recarving of Roman portraits and the late-antique portrait arts / by Marina Prusac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prusac, Marina.

Series:

Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 18.

Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 0169-8850 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait sculpture, Roman.

Altered sculptures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Other Title:

Recarving of Roman portraits and the late-antique portrait arts

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is based on an investigation of more than 2000 portraits of which around 500 have proven to be recarved. It provides thorough analyses of the different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localized workshops, establishing classifiable categories, and an analytical text with special regard to the cultural historical changes in Late Antiquity. The investigation underpins a hypothesis on the late antique portraits style as a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time, which relied on a syncretism of politics, religion and ideology. The conclusion gives a new understanding of how broad-scoped, culturally and politically encoded and comprehensive the practice of recarving was.

This book is based on an investigation of more than 2000 portraits of which around 500 have proven to be recarved. It provides thorough analyses of the different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localized workshops, establishing classifiable categories, and an analytical text with special regard to the cultural historical changes in Late Antiquity. The investigation underpins a hypothesis on the late antique portraits style as a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time, which relied on a syncretism of politics, religion and ideology. The conclusion gives a new understanding of how broad-scoped, culturally and politically encoded and comprehensive the practice of recarving was.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction The history of sculpture reuse and related problems

Chapter One The reuse of sculpture and recarving of portraits

Chapter Two Statistical analyses

Chapter Three The 1st-2nd centuries ce and the damnatio memoriae portraits

Chapter Four The Third century CE

Chapter Five Late Antiquity and the emergence of new visual expressions

Chapter Six Recarving methods

Chapter Seven Classifications

Chapter Eight Social aspects

Conclusions Oblivion and reinvention

Summary

Map with portrait provenances

The Roman imperial succession until Justinian I

Catalogue of recarved portraits

Bibliography

Index of museums and collections

Concordances

General index

Figure plates 1-155.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95244-7

9786612952449

90-04-19232-8

OCLC:

700289790

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004182714.i-362 DOI