Roman Portraits: 0000 - Softcover

Goldscheider, Ludwig

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714844365 ISBN 13: 9780714844367

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2004

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Paperback. Publisher: Phaidon Press Facsimile reprint of a classic Phaidon title. written and designed by the co-founder of the company. and containing 120 beautiful full-page plates of the powerfully realistic marble portraits for which the Romans were renowned Among the greatest artistic achievements of the Roman Empire are portrait sculptures. Derived from an ancient tradition of making funerary effigies. these portraits are astonishing in their realism and expressive power. and their stern humanity speaks to us across the millennia with undiminished force and directness. Roman Portraits is a unchanged reprint in slightly reduced format of a classic Phaidon plate book first published in 1940. Its distinguished author. Ludwig Goldscheider. who was one of the founders of Phaidon Press. not only wrote the text. but made the selection of images and designed the book himself. ...

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"Will become a treasured possession... Beautiful illustrations... A delight to handle and read."―Publishing News

"Astonishingly expressive... The shock of direct recognition is due not only to the power of the classical sculptors, but also to the photographer’s unvarying emphasis on the faces."―The Times

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Facsimile reprint of a classic Phaidon title, written and designed by the co-founder of the company, and containing 120 beautiful full-page plates of the powerfully realistic marble portraits for which the Romans were renowned Among the greatest artistic achievements of the Roman Empire are portrait sculptures. Derived from an ancient tradition of making funerary effigies, these portraits are astonishing in their realism and expressive power, and their stern humanity speaks to us across the millennia with undiminished force and directness. Roman Portraits is a unchanged reprint in slightly reduced format of a classic Phaidon plate book first published in 1940. Its distinguished author, Ludwig Goldscheider, who was one of the founders of Phaidon Press, not only wrote the text, but made the selection of images and designed the book himself. The remarkable photographs were taken by the writer and photographer Ilse Schneider-Lengyel, who was commissioned by Phaidon in the 1930s to photograph antique and Renaissance sculpture in the great museums of Europe. Portraits are always fascinating, and the powerful, brooding faces in this book have a compelling and haunting quality that will ap

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