Copiez la femme : replicated bodies and individuality on Roman portraiture [videorecording] / [lecture by] Annetta Alexandridis ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Copiez la femme : replicated bodies and individuality on Roman portraiture [videorecording] / [lecture by] Annetta Alexandridis ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Roman portraits are famous for highly individualized renderings of their subjects, but portrait heads are often combined with bodies copied from a limited repertoire of statue types. How does this influence our interpretation of the work? Lecturer Annetta Alexandridis, professor of classical art and archaeology at Cornell University, examines the Herculaneum Women as a case study to explore this question.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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