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Gender, identity and the body in Greek and Roman sculpture /

This book offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barrow, R. J. (Rosemary J.) (Author)
Other Authors: Silk, M. S. (Michael Stephen), 1941- (Contributor), Elsner, Jaś (Contributor), Matzner, Sebastian (Contributor), Squire, Michael (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, > 1598-1680.
Gender identity in art.
Sex in art.
Sculpture, Greek > Themes, motives.
Sculpture, Roman > Themes, motives.
Sculpture, Classical.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: approaching gender
  • The male body: Doryphoros
  • The female body: Aphrodite of Cnidos
  • The veiled body: Tanagra statuette
  • The ageing body: drunken old woman
  • The indefinite body: sleeping Hermaphrodite
  • The political body: Prima Porta Augustus
  • The incongruous body: portrait of 'Marcia Furnilla' as Venus
  • The beloved body: Antinous
  • The other body: marble relief with female gladiators
  • The non-human body: Pan and a she-goat
  • Epilogue: Bernini's 'Neptune and Triton'.