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Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire
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2021
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography
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One of the more fruitful lines of research in recent decades has been the exploration of how Roman sculpture interacted with the lives of its contemporary viewers. This chapter employs monumental reliefs, large-scale sculptures set up in public areas by official authorities, as a case study to examine how sculpture contributed to social practice under the Roman emperors. Particular focus is given to the phenomenon of imperial portrait types, the blending of history and myth in sculpted
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190850326.013.12
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