Ideal Beauty and Adornment
A Roman Portrait of a Young Woman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22062647 |
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| Authors | Eve D’ambra (Vassar College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eugesta (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2265-8777 • E-ISSN: 2265-8777 |
| Publisher | Universite de Lille (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.54563/eugesta.257 |
| OpenAlex | W4391412847 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The article focuses on a Roman portrait of a young woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the early second century C.E. The marble head, though striking for its beauty and high quality of craftsmanship, cannot be identified. It is also a fragment from a statue without an archaeological context or findspot. How do we approach a sculpture about which so much cannot be known? A visual analysis of related portraits, along with a discussion of the tradition of epitaphs, literary accounts, and artefacts of girls’ lives, such as dolls, suggest how maidens were commemorated and valued in Rome
Adornment · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Beauty · Epistemology · Georgian · Linguistics · Portrait · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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