Research Catalog

Title

Facing the colours of Roman portraiture : exploring the materiality of ancient polychrome forms / Amalie Skovmøller.

Author

Skovmøller, Amalie

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xi, 361 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.

Summary

The fact that most ancient marble portraits were once intentionally polychrome has always been lurking at the corners of art historical and archaeological research. Despite the fact, that the colours of the sculpted forms completed, enhanced and even extended the plastic shapes, the topic has not been devoted much dedicated attention. This book represents the first full-length academic monograph which explores the original polychromy of Roman white marble portraiture. It presents results from scientific analysis of portraits in statuary and bust formats dating to the first three centuries CE. The book also explores the cultural and social significance of colours in their original contexts, and how the immaterial affects of the polychrome, three-dimensional images can be integrated into the traditional research into ancient portraiture, which has tended to place overwhelming emphasis on iconography, typology and biography. By doing so the ancient sculpted marble form, as we know it, will be exposed and confronted, and the impact of manipulated material effects, that were meant to evoke a broad range of multisensory experiences, will be emphasized. The book puts forth a new way of analysis to be tested and developed in the future.

Series Statement

Image & context, 1868-4777 ; volume 19

Uniform Title

Image & context ; v. 19.

Alternative Title

Exploring the materiality of ancient polychrome forms

Subject

• Portraits > Rome > History
• Polychromy
• Marble sculpture, Ancient > Rome
• Marble sculpture, Roman
• Marble sculpture, Ancient
• Portraits
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published as the author's thesis (doctoral--Copenhagen) under the title: Portraits and colour codes in Ancient Rome: the polychromy of white marble portraits.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-352) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Prologue : From Reuterswärd to Bunte Götter -- Introduction -- Painting the Portrait Body -- Marble Portraits from the Room of Fundilia -- Sculpting and Painting the Fundilia Portraits -- Marble and Textiles : Pigments and Dyes -- Painting the Portrait Head and Face -- Polychrome High-Gloss Polished Portraits from the Early Third Century CE -- Reconstructing the Painted Portrait of a Roman Youth -- Painting White Marble Skin -- Painting Replicas -- Painted Marble Portraits in Context -- Colours in Context -- Roman Sculptural Polychromy -- Epilogue : Colour : And Now What? -- Appendix -- Research Strategies and Methodologies -- Catalogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Figures -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 21-2892

ISBN

• 9783110563665
• 3110563665

LCCN

• 2020939076
• 9783110563665

OCLC

1197943260

Author

Skovmøller, Amalie, author.

Title

Facing the colours of Roman portraiture : exploring the materiality of ancient polychrome forms / Amalie Skovmøller.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Image & context, 1868-4777 ; volume 19

Image & context ; v. 19.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-352) and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Skovmøller, Amalie. Facing the colours of Roman portraiture. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2020] 9783110585520 (OCoLC)1193128833

Other Standard Identifier

9783110563665

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2892