Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context

by Edited by Peter Schultz , Ralf von den Hoff

• ISBN13: 9780521866590
• ISBN10: 0521866596
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Examines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced during one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early Hellenistic age. Often seen as the beginning of the Western tradition in portraiture, this historical period is here subjected to a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis. Using a variety of methodologies from a wide range of fields - anthropology, numismatics, epigraphy, archaeology, history, and literary criticism - an international team of experts investigates the problems of origins, patronage, setting, and meanings that have consistently marked this fascinating body of ancient material culture.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Early Hellenistic portraiture

The Transformation of the Classical Legacy

Praxiteles and fourth century Athenian portraiture

Attic grave reliefs and portrait sculpture in fourth century

Styles and Patterns of Representation

Naturalism and classicism

Portraits of women in the early Hellenistic period

The Daochos monument at Delphi: the style and setting of a family portrait in historic dress

Fashion and meaning: beardless portraits of artists and literati in the early Hellenistic period

The emergence of ruler portraiture on early Hellenistic coins: the importance of being divine

Alexander, Philitas, and the Skeletos: Poseidippos and truth in early Hellenistic portraiture

Patrons and Settings

Early Hellenistic portrait statues on the Athenian acropolis: survival, reuse, transformation

Human achievement and divine favor: the religious context of early Hellenistic portraiture

Space and visualization of power in the Greek polis: the award of portrait statues in decrees from

Leochares' Argead portraits in the

Out of Athens: Egypt and the Spread of

Berenice II in

The philosophers of poets in the Sarapieion at

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