Author : Marina Prusac
Publisher : Monumenta Graeca Et Romana
ISBN 13 : 9789004321847
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (218 download)
Book Synopsis From Face to Face by : Marina Prusac
Download or read book From Face to Face written by Marina Prusac and published by Monumenta Graeca Et Romana. This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is based on an investigation of more than five hundred recarved portraits. It includes analyses of different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localised workshops. The different recarving methods have made it possible to suggest classifiable categories, which together underpin a hypothesis that the late-antique portrait style is a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time. The practice of portrait recarving emerged due to economic, political, religious and ideological factors, and was influenced by the cultural-historical changes of Late Antiquity. The conclusion gives a new understanding of how wide-ranging, culturally and politically encoded and comprehensive the practice of recarving was."--