The collection of Roman portraiture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art spans the full scope of the subject, from the time of the Roman Republic to the reign of Constantine the Great (26.229). The collection comprises examples in a variety of media, most significantly sculpture and coins (08.170.118;
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The development of Roman portraiture is characterized by a stylistic cycle that alternately emphasized realistic or idealizing elements. ... Pollini, John, ed. Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, 1990.
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Roman portraiture was one of the most important currents in ancient Roman art. Portrait sculpture from the Republican era tends to be somewhat more modest, realistic, and natural compared to early Im...
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a series of web pages on Roman Imperial portrait sculptures at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and their historical and cultural context. ... Special Exhibition; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art; Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave; September 19, 2003 - August 25, 2005;
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Roman sculpture and portraiture ... D'Ambra, Eve. Roman Art. Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Approaches Roman art through chapters on portraiture, houses and painted interiors, the social order, city and urban space, and empire and its myths.
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Including men, women and children, emperors, famous Roman statesmen, and private individuals, they enable us to trace the evolution of Roman portraiture from the creation of a faithful and accurate reproduction of the sitter's appearance to the depiction of the individual's inner world.
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The ancient Greeks and Romans honored individuals through portraiture. Roman artists especially are renowned for rendering their subjects' true physical characteristics, and they skillfully used costume, jewelry, and gesture to indicate a person's social or political status.
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Classicist Annetta Alexandridis lectures on portraiture and body types in Roman sculpture. ... Copiez la femme: Replicated Bodies and Individuality in Roman Portraiture (lecture)
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JACQUES-EDOUARD BERGER FOUNDATION: World Art Treasures ... Roman Portraits from Egypt: The eye and eternity ... Located some one hundred kilometers south of Cairo, Fayyum is a green and fertile region in a vast circular depression. Its diameter from east to west is approximately 60 kilometers, northwest of the lake of...
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The Roman World ... Project on Roman Portraiture ... Read chapters one, "The Social Order," and three, "Portraiture and Commemoration," in Eve D'Ambra's Roman Art, pp. 39-57 and 93-125.
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