EXAMPLE OR ALTER EGO ? ASPECTS OF THE PORTRAIT HISTORIÉ IN WESTERN ART FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (original) (raw)

Effigies. Ancient Portraiture as Figuration of the Particular. Morphomata 53

Morphomata, 2021

This volume shows how the portraits of the Greeks and Romans gave shape to and reinforced the perceptions of the particular character of a person. These considerations are based on intensive archaeological research, which in recent decades has successfully addressed questions of typology, identification, and historical classification of ancient portraits. Three aspects are examined in the interweaving of case studies and general reflections: the preconditions for the creation of portraits; the medial conditions of the creation processes; the efficacy of the created form.

Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture

Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 2009

This paper examines ancient Greek embodiments of animals in sculpture and their afterlives in the Roman imperial period. Statues of animals, both lifesize and lifelike, were prototypical votive and funerary monuments, characteristic of the Classical period (ca. 480-323 B.C.). Lions, bulls, and other animals were dedicated to the gods in their sanctuaries as ἀγάλµατα (pleasing gifts), as emblems of the identities of their divine recipients , and as perpetual sacrificial victims. The most famous of these statues in antiquity was Myron's cow, a bronze statue that originally stood on the Athenian Acropolis, but was later removed to Rome. Though representations of animal bodies could not be mistaken for human portraits, many were later reinterpreted as "portraits" of animals that had benefited humans by their virtuous deeds. A principal example is Pausanias' story about a bronze bull dedicated by the people of Corcyra at Delphi to represent the bull that had miraculously led them to a gigantic tuna catch (10.9.3-4). The stories generated by animal statues are treated by Pausanias and other authors of the Second So-phistic as moralising exempla, a typical feature of Roman discourse in this period. While the accretion of oral traditions over time to earlier animal statues never challenged the literal boundary between animal bodies and human ones, earlier monuments were reimagined as products of mainstream Hellenistic and Roman portrait culture.

Portraits: 400 Years of Hellenistic Portraits - 400 Jahre hellenistische Portraits

Portraits - 400 Years of Hellenistic Portraits, 2020

>500 highest quality portrait coin images in highest resolution and large size from across the Hellenistic world incl 3 previously unknown hellenistic kings; 14 research articles on Hellenistic Portraiture on coins and other media. 410 pages threadbound hardcover. The 2.5kg book can be ordered via raeticus@yahoo.de ISBN 978-3-922840-41-1 Ausgehend von den Münzportraits der hellenistischen Herrscher und Herrscherinnen (über 500 Münzen werden allein im Katalogteil in mehrfacher Vergrößerung abgebildet, dazu die Rückseiten in einheitlicher Vergrößerung) werden auch die Herrscherportraits in den anderen Medien (Rundplastik, Relief, Malerei, Glyptik) analysiert. Dargestellt wird die Entwicklung von den Vorläufern in der griechischen und graeco-persischen Welt bis zum Übergang in das römische Kaiserporträt. Schwerpunkte der Einzeluntersuchungen bilden das Portrait Alexanders des Großen, die Bildnisse der Seleukiden und Seleukidinnen sowie der Ptolemäer, aber auch Darstellungen von Herrschern mit bestimmten Attributen oder Überlegungen zum Übergang zwischen hellenistischen und römischen Porträts.