Did Portraiture Exist as a Genre in Classical Antiquity? About One of the Problems in Art Theory
Journal: Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art
Year: 2017

The definition of ancient portraiture is a subject of controversy. It is well known that ancientportraiture was of fundamental importance for West-European art, and it was in Classical antiquity that basic forms of sculptural portraiture were created. It was then that artistic language appeared, and the tradition o finstalling statues in socially significant places was established, Despite that in the second half of the 20th — early 21st century art historians came to a paradoxical conclusion: C