The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300

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Christopher H. Hallett (Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics, University of California at Berkeley)

The Roman Nude

Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300

Christopher H. Hallett (Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics, University of California at Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press
01 December 2004

History of art: ancient & classical art; Sculpture; Nudes depicted in art; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Social & cultural history

Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation

Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men were portrayed naked holding weapons - the naked emperor might wield the thunderbolt of Jupiter - while Roman women assumed the guise of the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images, modern viewers are usually unsympathetic, finding them incongruous, even tasteless. They are mostly written off as just another example of Roman `bad taste'.

This book offers a new approach. Comprehensively illustrated with black and white photographs of nude Romans represented in a wide range of artistic media, it investigates how this tradition arose, and how the nudity of these images was meant to be understood by contemporary viewers. And, since the Romans also employed a variety of other costumes for their statues (toga, armour, Greek philosopher's cloak), it asks, `What could nudity express that other costumes could not?' It is Hallett's claim that - looked at in this way - these `Roman nudes' turn out to be documents of the first importance for the cultural historian.

By: Christopher H. Hallett (Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics University of California at Berkeley)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 196mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199240494
ISBN 10: 0199240493
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 01 December 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher H. Hallett is Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Reviews for The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300

Both the collection of evidence and much of the iconographic analysis represent an important contribution which will be of lasting value. Margaret H. Williams, Journal of Roman Studies [A] thorough and well-researched study Elizabeth Bartman, Classical World [a] solid work(s) of scholarship...remind(s) us of the hard and physical aspect of ancient culture, too often centred on warlike competitiveness. Antiquity 80 The Roman Nude admirably and energetically contextualizes its enigmatic subject. Emma Dench, Art History