Faces of Power - Alexander''s Image and Hellenistic Politics

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Stewart is Professor of Greek and Roman Art at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (1990). Klappentext "There is no more evocative Greek portrait type than that of Alexander the Great. By exploring its potency and development in antiquity . . . Stewart has made an impressive demonstration of the value of this broader approach to a traditional art-historical subject."-Sir John Boardman! Ashmolean Museum Zusammenfassung During his reign and following his death, the physiognomy of Alexander the Great was one of the most famous in history, adorning numerous works of art. This study demonstrates how the various portraits transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of cliches that symbolized the ruler.

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• Authors: Andrew Stewart, Stewart Andrew
• Assisted by: Andrew Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.1994
• EAN: 9780520068513
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06851-3
• No. of pages: 550
• Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society; Hellenistic Culture and Societ; Hellenistic Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, History of Art, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Human figures depicted in art, Ancient Greek style