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Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles
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Sheila Dillon (Duke University, North Carolina)

Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture

Contexts, Subjects, and Styles

Sheila Dillon (Duke University, North Carolina)

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English
Cambridge University Press
24 April 2006
History of Art & Design Styles; Non-graphic art forms; History
This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the large number of Greek portraits known only through Roman copies. This study calls into question two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that it was only in the late Hellenistic period, under Roman influence, that Greek portraits exhibited a wide range of styles, including descriptive realism; and second, that in most cases, one can easily tell a subject's public role from the visual traits used in this portrait. The sculptures studied here instead show that the proliferation of portrait styles takes place much earlier, in the late Classical period, and that the identity expressed by these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 285mm,  Width: 222mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   922g
ISBN:   9780521854986
ISBN 10:   0521854989
Pages:   238
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sheila Dillon is assistant professor of art history at Duke University. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Academy in Rome, she is co-editor of Representations of Warfare in Ancient Rome.

Reviews for Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles

A great virtue of Dillon's study is her attention to bot the Greek setting of the original images and the display of busts and herms, and more rarely full statues of these past men of action or thought in Roman villas and gardens. -Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University Portrait Sculpture. Context, Subjects, and Styles... is a great book. ...[I]t is hard to do justice to the many issues that it raises. All the more reason, I think, to use the volume in your next seminar on Greek and Roman portraiture. -Peter Schultz, Concordia College, Bryn Mawr Classical Review


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