Portraits of children on Roman funerary monuments
By: Jason Mander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781107001022
Subjects: Children in art; Death; Roman Art; Children; Sepulchral monuments
Description: "Drawing on hundreds of tombstones from Rome, Italy and the Western provinces, this study assesses how parents visualised childhood. By considering the most popular funerary themes and iconographic models, it emphasises both the emotional and social investment placed in children, bringing to the fore many little-known examples. From Britannia to Dacia, Aquitania to Pannonia, it highlights the rich artistic diversity of the provinces and shows that not all trends were borrowed from the capital. With a wide range of social groups in evidence, including freedmen, soldiers and peregrini, it also considers the varying reasons which underlay child commemoration and demonstrates the importance of studying the material in context. Amply supported by a catalogue of examples and over a hundred images, it will be essential reading for anyone working on Roman childhood or family studies."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Commemorating the Roman child; title: The iconography of childhood; title: Nuclear notions; title: Fluid families; title: Portraits in context.