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This book is based on an investigation of more than five hundred recarved portraits. It includes analyses of different recarving methods, some of which can be attributed to geographically localised workshops. The different recarving methods have made it possible to suggest classifiable categories, which together underpin a hypothesis that the late-antique portrait style is a consequence of the many recarved portraits at the time. The practice of portrait recarving emerged due to economic, political, religious and ideological factors, and was influenced by the cultural-historical changes of Late Antiquity. The conclusion gives a new understanding of how wide-ranging, culturally and politically encoded and comprehensive the practice of recarving was.

busts [figures] --- Sculpture --- Roman history --- Portrait sculpture, Roman. --- Altered sculptures --- Sculpture de portraits romaine --- Sculptures transformées --- Altered sculptures. --- Bildnis. --- Römerzeit. --- Sculptures transformées --- Portrait sculpture, Roman --- Roman portrait sculpture --- busts [general, figures]

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For centuries, statuary decor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape. Further, changing religious practices cast pagan sculpture in a threatening light. Statuary production ceased, and extant statuary was either harvested for use in construction or abandoned in place. The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture is the first volume to approach systematically the antique destruction and reuse of statuary, investigating key responses to statuary across most regions of the Roman world. The volume opens with a discussion of the complexity of the archaeological record and a preliminary chronology of the fate of statues across both the eastern and western imperial landscape. Contributors to the volume address questions of definition, identification, and interpretation for particular treatments of statuary, including metal statuary and the systematic reuse of villa materials.

Sculpture, Classical --- Altered sculptures --- Sculpture materials --- Classical antiquities --- Sculpture antique --- Sculptures transformées --- Sculpture --- Antiquités gréco-romaines --- Appreciation --- History --- Congresses --- Recycling --- Destruction and pillage --- Appréciation --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Matériaux --- Recyclage --- Destruction et pillage --- ART / History / Ancient & Classical. --- Antike. --- HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. --- Plastik. --- Rezeption. --- Spätantike. --- Wiederverwendung. --- Griechenland --- Römisches Reich. --- Sculptures transformées --- Antiquités gréco-romaines --- Appréciation --- Congrès --- Matériaux --- Antiquities, Classical --- Antiquities, Grecian --- Antiquities, Roman --- Archaeology, Classical --- Classical archaeology --- Roman antiquities --- Antiquities --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Art, Ancient --- Classical philology --- Artists' materials --- Classical sculpture