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Journal of Roman Studies, 1953
The Greek and Roman Department of the British Museum has acquired a Roman portrait head in alabaster of unknown provenience, 16·5 cm. in height (pll. XVII, XVIII, 1). The eyebrows and chin are chipped and the nose is missing. The colour varies from ivory to light brown, and the softness of the alabaster has permitted very delicate surface modelling ...
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The Greek and Roman Department of the British Museum has acquired a Roman portrait head in alabaster of unknown provenience, 16·5 cm. in height (pll. XVII, XVIII, 1). The eyebrows and chin are chipped and the nose is missing. The colour varies from ivory to light brown, and the softness of the alabaster has permitted very delicate surface modelling ...
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Two Romans Provençal portrait reliefs
Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité, 1976Diana E. E. et Fred S. Kleiner, Two Bomano-Provencal Portrait Reliefs, p. 243-257. Two Augustan funerary reliefs with family portraits from «St.-Julien-les-Martigues» and «Les Baux» are discussed. The St.-Julien relief has been variously described, but the authors believe that it depicts a scene of leaveta-king which has close parallels on ...
Kleiner, Fred S., Kleiner, Diana E.
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The Roman Adoption of the Nude Portrait
2005Abstract This chapter seeks to reconstruct the historical circumstances in which leading Romans of the late Republic took over for themselves the Greek convention of the portrait in ‘heroic costume’. We begin with a brief review of the earliest known cases in which Romans (or Italians) are so portrayed.
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Mummy Portraits and Roman Portraiture
2020The portrait as a record of an individual’s personal appearance in his or her lifetime has long been regarded as one of the most successful and enduring genres of Roman art. Some Roman portraits were set up in public areas, like modern commemorative statues of distinguished individuals.
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