The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300

by Christopher H. Hallett

Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men were portrayed naked holding weapons. The naked emperor might wield the thunderbolt of Jupiter, while Roman women assumed the guide of the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images, modern viewers are
usually unsympathetic, finding them incongruous, even tasteless. They are mostly written off as just another example of Roman bad taste'.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019959970X
• ISBN13: 9780199599707
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.6"