Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.12.2, pp. 623-645
 
Beyond the Classical in Third Century Portraiture
by Anna Marguerite McCann, New York, N.Y.

Contents

I. Introduction: the Historical and Cultural Climate of the Third Century 623
II. The Use of Symbolic Allusion: the Portrait of Marcus Aurelius in the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana 626
III. Expressionism and a Revival of Realism: the Bronze Statue of Trebonianus Gallus in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 630
IV. A Classicizing Revival: the Portrait of Gallienus in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome 632
V. The Triumph of Abstract Form: the Portrait of Diocletian (?), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts 637
VI. Conclusions: A Synthesis - the New Spiritual Image, the Bronze Portrait of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome 640
Bibliography and Abbreviations 641
List of Illustrations 644
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