Research Catalog

Title

Women and visual replication in Roman imperial art and culture / Jennifer Trimble.

Author

Trimble, Jennifer, 1965-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xi, 486 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Greek culture in the Roman world

Uniform Title

Greek culture in the Roman world.

Subjects

• Social status in art
• Art and society > Rome
• Portrait sculpture, Greco-Roman
• Identity (Philosophical concept) in art
• Women in art
• ART / History / Ancient & Classical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780521825153
• 0521825156

LCCN

2011019854

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries