Roman Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Portraits write by Paul Zanker. This book was released on 2016-11-14. Roman Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portrait sculptures are among the most vibrant records of ancient Greek and Roman culture. They represent people of all ages and social strata: revered poets and philosophers, emperors and their family members, military heroes, local dignitaries, ordinary citizens, and young children. The Met's distinguished collection of Greek and Roman portraits in stone and bronze is published in its entirety for the first time in this volume. Paul Zanker, a leading authority on Roman sculpture today, has brought his exceptional knowledge to the study of these portraits; in presenting them, he brings the ancient world to life for contemporary audiences. Each work is lavishly illustrated, meticulously described, and placed in its historical and cultural context. The lives and achievement of significant figures are discussed in the framework of the political, social, and practical circumstances that influenced their portrait's forms and styles—from the unvarnished realism of the late Republican period to the idealizing and progressively abstract tendencies that followed. Analyses of marble portraits recarved into new likenesses after their original subjects were forgotten or officially repudiated provide especially compelling insights. Observations on fashions in hairstyling, which typically originated with the Imperial family and spread as fast as the rulers' latest portraits could be distributed, not only edify and amuse but also link the Romans' motives and appetite for imitation to our own. More than a collection catalogue, Roman Portraits is a thorough and multifaceted survey of ancient portraiture. Charting the evolution of this art from its origins in ancient Greece, it renews our appreciation of an connection to these imposing, timeless works.
Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone
Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone write by Janet Burnett Grossman. This book was released on 2003. Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is a an anthemion? What is giallo antico marble? Who was Praxiteles? This richly illustrated book -- in the popular Looking At series -- presents definitions and descriptions of these and many other terms relating to Greek and Roman sculpture encountered in museum exhibitions and publications on ancient stone sculpture. This is an indispensable guide to anyone looking for greater understanding of ancient sculpture and heightened enjoyment of the objects. Book jacket.
Sculpture of a City
Sculpture of a City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sculpture of a City write by Fairmount Park Art Association. This book was released on 1974-01-01. Sculpture of a City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Roman Portraits
Roman Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Portraits write by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 2016. Roman Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Power and Pathos
Power and Pathos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Pathos write by Jens M. Deahner. This book was released on 2015-05-24. Power and Pathos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.
