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The female portrait statue in the Greek world / Sheila Dillon.

By: Dillon, Sheila
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780521764506 (hbk.); 0521764505 (hbk.)Subject(s): Portrait sculpture, Ancient -- Greece | Portrait sculpture, Greek | Women -- Greece -- Portraits | Women -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 | Women in art | Human figure in art -- History -- To 1500 | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 | Statues -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 | Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C | Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.DDDC classification: 733/.3
Contents:
Introduction: Finding the female portrait in Greek art -- Portrait honors for women in late Classical and Hellenistic Greece -- Clothes and the woman : statue formats and portrait costumes -- The female portrait face -- The "not portrait" style of female portraiture in the Roman period -- Appendix 1: Female portrait statues in fourth-century Athens -- Appendix 2: Female portrait statues on independent Delos (before 166) -- Appendix 3: Female portrait statues on Athenian-controlled Delos (post 166) -- Appendix 4: Female portrait statues in Athens, third-first centuries BCE.
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Book Book British Museum
Greece and Rome Shelves Sculpture: Portraits: DIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 25463

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and indexes.

Introduction: Finding the female portrait in Greek art -- Portrait honors for women in late Classical and Hellenistic Greece -- Clothes and the woman : statue formats and portrait costumes -- The female portrait face -- The "not portrait" style of female portraiture in the Roman period -- Appendix 1: Female portrait statues in fourth-century Athens -- Appendix 2: Female portrait statues on independent Delos (before 166) -- Appendix 3: Female portrait statues on Athenian-controlled Delos (post 166) -- Appendix 4: Female portrait statues in Athens, third-first centuries BCE.