Description: Title: Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories Author: Keesling, Catherine M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 324 Dimensions: 10.43h x 7.17w x 0.83d Product Weight: 1.93 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781107162235 In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. Bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, Keesling grounds her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus' Histories and situates portrait representation within the context of contemporary debates about the nature of arete (excellence), the value of historical commemoration and the relationship between the human individual and the gods and heroes. She argues that often the goal of Classical portraiture was to link the individual to divine or heroic models. Offering an overview of the role of portraits in Archaic and Classical Greece, her study includes local histories of the development of Greek portraiture in sanctuaries such as Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis.
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Book Title: Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Publication Name: Early Greek Portraiture : Monuments and Histories
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: History / Ancient & Classical
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 31 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 10.3 in
Subject Area: Art
Author: Catherine M. Keesling
Item Width: 7.2 in
Format: Hardcover
