HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Chariot Racing, Funerary Art, Pietas
6 Dec 2020
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Private portraits in the ancient world are portraits that do not show the imperial family or their court. They would still be displayed in public, usually for funerary purposes. Types" like imperial portraiture and tended to be more distinguished in categories. Incredible quantities of private portraiture survive, we have c. 20,000 surviving portraits which come from every roman province. Would often not look like the person themselves, but what they wanted to look like. Citizen portraits were, however, extremely responsive to changes in imperial portraiture. Freedman reliefs often show family members copying imperial styles. Husbands and wives would share the same hairstyles and facial features as augustus and livia. The imperial court was used as an example, empresses would create new hairstyles, which would be adopted by the masses. After hadrian, men start wearing full beards in portraits as to copy the imperial style.
