Hellenistic portraiture was one of the most innovative features of
Hellenistic art
Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BCE, when the Greek mainlan ...
. Spurred on by an increased interest in realism, Hellenistic sculptors sought to produce true-to-life portraits defined by the individualism of their subjects.
Emergent at this time is a focus on a range of states of mind such as inebriation and concentration, as well as physical characteristics like senescence and anatomical abnormality - in great contrast with the idealised forms of the Classical period
Lysippos
Development of physiognomy
Official portraiture
Gallery
Image:Demostenes.jpg, Portrait of Demosthenes
Image:Seneca.JPG, Pseudo-Seneca at Naples
Notes
Bibliography
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Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (19 February 1900 – 17 January 1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.
Biography
Bianchi Bandinelli was born in Siena to Mario Bianchi Bandinelli (1859–1930) and Margherita Ottilie "Lily" von Korn ...
, ''Il problema del ritratto'', in ''L'arte classica'',
Editori Riuniti
Editori Riuniti is an Italian publishing house based in Rome that publishes books and magazines on the history of socialism, socialist thought, physics and mathematics theory, and the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Histor ...
, Rome 1984.
*{{in lang, it Pierluigi De Vecchi and Elda Cerchiari, ''I tempi dell'arte'', volume 1, Bompiani, Milano 1999.
Portraiture
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...