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The Roman Nude:

Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 B.C.-A.D. 300
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OXFORD University Press, 2005 - History - 391 pages
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.

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About the author (2005)


Christopher H. Hallettis Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics at the University of California at Berkeley.

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TitleThe Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 B.C.-A.D. 300
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
AuthorChristopher H. Hallet
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOXFORD University Press, 2005
ISBN0199240493, 9780199240494
Length391 pages
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Art / European
Art / Sculpture & Installation
History / Ancient / Rome
  
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