From Face to Face

Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts. Second, Revised Edition
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32184-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 22 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 1403 g

Reihe: Monumenta Graeca et Romana

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prusac, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Portraitdarstellung in der Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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.