Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies.
Trade Review"This study of Ptolemaic royal statuary will be an outstanding resource for scholars and of considerable interest to the general reader. As an Egyptological reference and as a model for the application of the methodology of art historical analysis, it should stand unchallenged for many years.... a work of encyclopedic breadth and impeccable scholarship." Jack A. Josephson, author of Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period, 400-246 B.C.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Definitions and conventions
- Dynastic chronology
- Chapter 1: A unique vantage point
- Chapter 2: The priestly decrees
- Chapter 3: "Conspicuous" and other places
- Chapter 4: A visual vocabulary
- Chapter 5: Ideology and the royal visage
- Chapter 6: Chronology
- Chapter 7: Powerful traditions, new dynamics
- Chapter 8: A generation of innovators
- Appendix A: Sculptors' studies or votives?
- Appendix B: Questionable sculptures
- Catalogue
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
- Figures
