Hellenistic_portraiture Knowpia

Hellenistic portraiture was one of the most innovative features of Hellenistic art. Spurred on by an increased interest in realism, Hellenistic sculptors sought to produce true-to-life portraits defined by the individualism of their subjects.^[1] Emergent at this time is a focus on a range of states of mind such as inebriation and concentration, as well as physical characteristics like senescence and anatomical abnormality - in great contrast with the idealised forms of the Classical period^[2]^[1]

Lysippos edit

Development of physiognomy edit

Official portraiture edit

Gallery edit

Portrait of Demosthenes
Pseudo-Seneca at Naples

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b Griffiths Pedley, John (1993). Greek Art & Archaeology. Laurence King. p. 350.
^ Barringer, Judith M. (2014). The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press. p. 342.

Bibliography edit

(in Italian) Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Il problema del ritratto, in L'arte classica, Editori Riuniti, Rome 1984.
(in Italian) Pierluigi De Vecchi and Elda Cerchiari, I tempi dell'arte, volume 1, Bompiani, Milano 1999.

[:0-1] Griffiths Pedley, John (1993). Greek Art & Archaeology. Laurence King. p. 350.

[2] Barringer, Judith M. (2014). The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press. p. 342.

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