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- Title
THE TWO CULTURES: CONNOISSEURSHIP AND CIVIC HONOURS.
- Authors
MA, JOHN
- Abstract
The political culture of the Hellenistic poleis put great importance on honours for benefactors; hence the development of a particular genre of public sculpture, the honorific portrait, usually a life-size bronze statue. At first sight, this genre has nothing to do with the replication of ancient Greek masterpieces. Yet there are intersections between honorific statuary and replication: honorific statues of famous and, perhaps, not so famous men were replicated; honorific statuary borrowed from the resources offered by type and replication, for its own purposes. Replication meant different things in different contexts; yet the two cultures, arthistorical connoisseurship and civic political culture, did not exist in isolation, but each derived meaning from each other's existence and functioning.
- Subjects
HELLENISTIC art; HELLENISTIC bronze sculpture; HELLENISTIC portraits; PUBLIC sculpture; PORTRAIT sculpture; POLITICAL culture
- Publication
Art History, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 2, p325
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2006.00504.x