The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300

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Christopher H. Hallett (Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics, University of California at Berkeley)

The Roman Nude

Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300

Christopher H. Hallett (Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics, University of California at Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press
20 January 2011

History of art: ancient & classical art; Sculpture; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Social & cultural history

Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation

Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men were portrayed naked holding weapons. The naked emperor might wield the thunderbolt of Jupiter, while Roman women assumed the guide of the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images, modern viewers are usually unsympathetic, finding them incongruous, even tasteless. They are mostly written off as just another example of Roman `bad taste'. This book offers a new approach. Comprehensively illustrated with black and white photographs of its subjects, it investigates how this tradition arose, and how the nudity of these portraits was meant to be understood by contemporary viewers. And, since the Romans also employed a range of costumes for their statues (toga, armour, Greek philosopher's cloak), it asks, `What could the nude images express that other costumes could not?' It is Christopher Hallett's claim that - looked at in this way - these `Roman nudes' turn out to be documents of the first importance for the cultural historian.

By: Christopher H. Hallett (Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics University of California at Berkeley)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 844g
ISBN: 9780199599707
ISBN 10: 019959970X
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 20 January 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: The Greek background 2: The nude portrait in Greek art 3: Attitudes towards nudity at Rome 4: The Roman adoption of the nude portrait 5: The nude portrait under the Empire 6: The nudity of the gods 7: Understanding the Roman nude

Christopher H. Hallett is Professor of History of Art and Classics, University of California at Berkeley.