Family Fictions in Roman Art: Essays on the Representation of Powerful People

by Natalie Boymel Kampen

In Family Fictions in Roman Art, Natalie Kampen reveals the profoundly de-naturalized ways in which family could be represented in the interests of political power during the Roman Empire. Her study examines a group of splendid objects made over the course of six hundred years, from carved gems to triumphal arches to ivory plaques, and asks how and why artists and their elite patrons chose to depict family to speak of everything from gender to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521584477
• ISBN13: 9780521584470
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"