I Clavdia: Women in Ancient Rome

by: Kleiner, D.E. Matheson, S.B.

Price: 75,00 EURO

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A comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. It concentrates on the evidence provided by portraits, reliefs, wall-paintings, architecture and decorative arts. The catalogue entries describe more than 180 works, and seven essays discuss gender theory, portraits of empresses and princesses, the portrayal of women as goddesses and women's roles in society, the home, literature and artistic patronage

Contents:
Introduction / Diana E.E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson
Gender Theory in Roman Art / Natalie B. Kampen
The Public Realm. Imperial Women as Patrons of the Arts in the Early Empire / Diana E.E. Kleiner. Courtly Portraits of Women in the Era of the Adoptive Emperors (AD 98-180) and their Reception in Roman Society / Klaus Fittschen
The Domestic Realm. Engendering the Roman House / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Women in Roman Society / Susan Treggiari. Representations of Roman Women in Literature / Gordon Williams
The Funerary Realm. The Divine Claudia: Women as Goddesses in Roman Art / Susan B. Matheson
Genealogy Charts: Augustus and the Julio-Claudian Dynasty; Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonine Dynasty; The Severan Dynasty

Subjects:
Art romain Expositions
Art, Roman
Art, Roman Exhibitions
Beeldende kunsten
Catalogues d'exposition
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogue
Exhibition catalogues
Femmes dans l'art Expositions
Romeinse oudheid
Vrouwen
Women in art
Women in art Exhibitions
exhibition catalogs

228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

I Clavdia: Women in Ancient Rome

by: Kleiner, D.E. Matheson, S.B.

• ISBN-13: 9780894670756 / 978-0-89467-075-6
• ISBN-03: 0894670751 / 0-89467-075-1
• University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996

Price: 75,00 EURO

(in stock)