Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments (Hardback)
Short Description for Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments Drawing on hundreds of tombstones from Rome, Italy and the Western provinces, this study assesses how parents visualised childhood. By considering the most popular funerary themes and iconographic models, it emphasises both the emotional and social investment placed in children, bringing to the fore many little-known examples.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 31 December 2012
- Format: Hardback 411 pages
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- Categories: Art History: Ancient & Classical BCE to c 500 CE | Sculpture | Human Figures Depicted In Art | Age Groups: Children | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History | Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9781107001022 ISBN 10: 1107001021
- Sales rank: 1,139,125
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Full description for Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments
Drawing on hundreds of tombstones from Rome, Italy and the Western provinces, this study assesses how parents visualised childhood. By considering the most popular funerary themes and iconographic models, it emphasises both the emotional and social investment placed in children, bringing to the fore many little-known examples. From Britannia to Dacia, Aquitania to Pannonia, it highlights the rich artistic diversity of the provinces and shows that not all trends were borrowed from the capital. With a wide range of social groups in evidence, including freedmen, soldiers and peregrini, it also considers the varying reasons which underlay child commemoration and demonstrates the importance of studying the material in context.
