Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: From Reuterswärd to Bunte Götter -- Introduction -- Part 1: Painting the Portrait Body -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Marble Portraits from the Room ...

Explore how Rome’s elite imported and replicated Greek masterpieces, turning classical ideals into distinctly Roman art. From ...

Fayum portraits are a type of ancient Roman paintings crafted as funerary effigies in and around the Fayum oasis, southwest of Cairo. The portraits, which were placed on mummies, are a funerary custom ...

List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Funerary portraits in Roman Greater Syria - time for a reappreciation / Michael Blömer and Rubina Raja -- Shifting the paradigms: towards a new agenda ...

In his lecture, Doherty focused on Roman portraiture in Virgil’s time. The ancient Romans originally adopted the art of portraiture from the Greek classical sculpture, yet soon diverged from their ...