Imitatio Alexandri: portrety Aleksandra Makedonskogo i mifologicheskie obrazy v iskusstve epokhi ellinizma. Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Imitatio Alexandri: Portrait of Alexander the Great and Mythological Images in the Art of Hellenism. The State Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2012. sewn cl. The monograph publishes the author’s research on an original and understudied theme in art criticism: the ways in which the image of Alexander the Great influenced the representations of heroes and gods in Hellenistic art. The author outlines the historiography of “Alexander-type” portraits and raises questions about imitation in the context of the period and looks at the imagery of the main mythological characters influenced by the iconography of Alexander. Chapter titles: I. The History of the Study of Portraits of Alexander the Great and the Subject of Imitation; II. Alexander the Great in Hellenistic Art: the Image and the Reality; III. Portraits of Alexander the Great and Mythological Images in the Hellenistic Age: 1. The Influence of Portraits of Alexander on the Hellenistic Iconography of Achilles; 2. Alexander in the Guise of Heracles and Heracles in the Guise of Alexander; 3. The Evolution of the Iconography of Dionysus and the Myth of Alexander; 4. The Royal Image and Deities of the Heavenly sphere in Hellenistic Art; 5. Alexander and the Giants of the Pergamon Frieze; 6. The Alexander Type in the Hellenistic Iconography of Water Deities. 320 pp., 7 x 10 ins., 89 b-&-w illus., 66 color, Rus. with title page, table of contents and summary in ENGLISH. Item #364
ISBN: 9785935724450
Price: $68.00