Women and visual replication in Roman imperial art and culture
Subtitle: visual replication and urban elites
By: Jennifer Trimble
Series: Greek culture in the Roman world
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521825153
Subjects: Women in art; ART / History / Ancient & Classical; Portrait sculpture, Greco-Roman; Art and society; Identity (Philosophical concept) in art; Social status in art
Description: "Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? The complex issue of the Roman copying of Greek 'originals' has so far been studied primarily from a formal and aesthetic viewpoint. Jennifer Trimble takes a broader perspective, considering archaeological, social historical and economic factors, and examines how these statues were made, bought and seen. To understand how Roman visual replication worked, Trimble focuses on the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body particularly common in the second century CE and surviving in about two hundred examples, to assess how sameness helped to communicate a woman's social identity. She demonstrates how visual replication in the Roman Empire thus emerged as a means of constructing social power and articulating dynamic tensions between empire and individual localities"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Production; 3. Replication; 4. Portraiture; 5. Space; 6. Difference; 7. Endings; Appendix. Dating the statues; Catalogue; Bibliography.