Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture

This book explains why Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Production; 3. Replication; 4. Portraiture; 5. Space; 6. Difference; 7. Endings; Appendix. Dating the statues; Catalogue; Bibliography.

About the author

Jennifer Trimble is Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University, California. In her research and teaching, she explores the visual and material culture of the Roman Empire, with particular interests in portraits and visual replication, cultural interactions, spatial analysis and the city of Rome. With Jas Elsner, she co-edited Art and Replication: Greece, Rome and Beyond (Art History 29.2 (2006)). She has excavated in Turkey, Tunisia, Germany, France and Italy, and is co-director of the IRC-Oxford-Stanford excavations in the Roman Forum, which investigate the interactions of commercial, religious and monumental space. She co-directed Stanford's Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, a collaboration between computer scientists and archaeologists focused on the reconstruction and study of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome. She has also held a Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and has been Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center.

Summary

Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms. This book examines the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body common in the second century CE and surviving in about two hundred examples, to demonstrate how sameness helped to communicate a woman's social identity.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Trimble, Jennifer (Stanford University Trimble, Trimble Jennifer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2016
• EAN: 9781316630266
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63026-6
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Sculpture & Installation, HISTORY / Women, ART / Women Artists, sculpture, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Roman style