page_title: Trajanic art
section_title: Imperial portraits
hierarchical_section_title: Trajanic art / Sculpture / Imperial portraits
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context_page_description: Trajanic art is the artistic production of the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Trajan from 98 to 117. In this period, Roman art further developed the innovations of the Flavian era, coming to definitively detach itself from Hellenistic influence.
context_section_description: A new type of imperial portrait was created on the tenth anniversary of Trajan's rule, the so-called "portrait of the decennial".  Seemingly devoid of emotion, this is a typical example of the realism of Roman private portraits: a simple and objective image with firm and calm features, however highlighting the authority and dignity of the subject.  A merging is seen between two previously separate types of portraiture; the official, honorary, portrait, and the private, often funerary, portrait.
  This attitude towards the figure of the emperor is seen in his depictions on Trajan's Column. Among the many small images, that of Trajan's conversation with one of his commanders (perhaps Lucius Licinius Sura) during the Second Dacian War stands out. With great formal simplicity, the emperor is depicted nonchalant while explaining a plan to the general, fixing him in the eyes and relaxing the palms of hands in front of him, according to an intense relationship of trust and respect between him and the subordinate, of an intelligent and virile conversation, devoid of any rhetoric or courtesy.
caption: The "decennial" portrait of Trajan, c. 108
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