The female portrait statue in the Greek world
By: Sheila Dillon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521764506
Subjects: Portrait sculpture, Ancient -- Greece; Portrait sculpture, Greek; Women -- Greece -- Portraits; Women -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Women in art; Human figure in art -- History -- To 1500; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Statues -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C; Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D
Genres: Portraits
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Finding the female portrait in Greek art; title: Portrait honors for women in late Classical and Hellenistic Greece; title: Clothes and the woman : statue formats and portrait costumes; title: The female portrait face; title: The "non-portrait" style of female portraiture in the Roman period; title: Appendix 1: Female portrait statues in fourth century Athens; title: Appendix 2: Female portrait statues on independent Delos (before 166); title: Appendix 3: Female portraits statues on Athenian-controlled Delos (post 166); title: Appendix 4: Female portrait statues in Athens, 3rd-1st centuries BCE.