Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World

Informationen zum Autor Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Art at Duke University. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, she is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture, which was awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award by the Archaeological Institute of America in 2008. Klappentext The first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world. Zusammenfassung This book is the first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE. Sheila Dillon examines the historical phenomenon of the commemoration of women in portrait statues and explores what these statues can tell us about Greek attitudes toward the public display of the female body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: finding the female portrait in Greek art; 1. Portrait honors for women in late Classical and Hellenistic Greece; 2. Clothes and the woman: statue formats and portrait costumes; 3. The female portrait face; 4. The 'non-portrait' style of female portraiture in the Roman period; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Dillon, Sheila (Duke University Dillon, Dillon Sheila
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521764506
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76450-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of Art, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Portraits in art, Ancient Greek style, Portraits and self-portraiture in art