From Face to Face

Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts. Second, revised edition

Marina Prusac (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2016 | 2nd edition
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52966-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Marina Prusac, Ph.D. (2007) in Classical Archaeology, University of Oslo, is Associate Professor at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo. Her research includes investigations of the recarving of sculpture in Late Antiquity, and of the cultural identities in the Roman province of Illyria-Dalmatia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; 18
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Line drawings, black and white; 155 Illustrations, black and white
• Verlagsort: Leiden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• ISBN-10: 90-04-52966-7 / 9004529667
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-52966-3 / 9789004529663
• Zustand: Neuware