veristic portraiture

Examples of veristic portraiture in the following topics:

• Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

  • Roman portraiture during the Republic is identified by its considerable realism, known as veristic portraiture.
  • As with other forms of Roman art, Roman portraiture borrowed certain details from Greek art but adapted these to their own needs.
  • Veristic images often show their male subject with receding hairlines, deep winkles, and even with warts.
  • The use of veristic portraiture began to diminish during the Late Republic in the first century BCE.
  • Veristic portraiture of an Old Man.

• Roman Sculpture under the Republic

  • Portraiture throughout the Republic celebrated old age with its verism.
  • Roman portraiture during the Republic is identified by its considerable realism, known as veristic portraiture.
  • The use of veristic portraiture began to diminish in the first century BCE.
  • The portraits of Julius Caesar are more veristic than those of Pompey.
  • Veristic portraiture of an Old Man.

• Sculpture during the Decline of the Roman Empire

  • Trajan Decius's portrait at first seems to take its artistic style from Republican veristic portraiture, but a closer look reveals something else.

• Architecture during the Severan Dynasty

  • His portraits show him as old, but fit and without the winkles of wisdom seen in Republican veristic portraiture.

• Etruscan Art under the Influence of the Romans

  • Aule Metele dresses as a Roman magistrate, and his face is a cross between Hellenistic and Roman veristic portraiture.

• Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

  • Abandoning the veristic style of the Republican period, his portraits always showed him as an idealized young man.
  • Like his father-in-law, Tiberius maintained a youthful appearance in his portraiture in sculpture.

• Neue Sachlichkeit

  • The verists' vehement form of realism emphasized the ugly and sordid.
  • George Grosz and Otto Dix are considered the most important of the verists.
  • Other verists, like Christian Schad, depicted reality with a clinical precision, which suggested both an empirical detachment and intimate knowledge of the subject.
  • Max Beckmann, who is sometimes called an expressionist although he never considered himself part of any movement, was considered to be a verist and the most important artist of Neue Sachlichkeit.
  • Compared to the verists, the classicists more clearly exemplify the "return to order" that arose in the arts throughout Europe.

• Imperial Sculpture under the Nervan-Antonines

  • Imperial portraiture of men and women in the early- to mid second century reflects increasing austerity and interest in the Greeks.
  • Imperial portraiture under the Flavians had begun depicting the emperors as mature, older men.
  • Nerva's portraiture followed the style of imperial portraiture during the Flavian era.
  • The portraiture of Nerva and later Trajan display an increasing militaristic look.
  • Contrast male and female imperial portraiture during this time period from that of the Flavian dynasty.

• Moche

  • Traditional North Coast Peruvian ceramic art uses a limited palette, relying primarily on red and white, fineline painting, fully modeled clay, veristic figures, and stirrup spouts.

• Imperial Sculpture under the Tetrarchy

  • Imperial portraiture of the Tetrarchs depicts the four emperors together and are nearly identical.
  • The portraiture symbolizes the concept of co-rule and cohesiveness instead of the power of the individual.
  • A porphyry bust of Galerius (c. 300 CE) shows the direction that portraiture was taking in the fourth century.
  • These attributes follow those of other sculptures of the Late Antique style and foreshadow the increasingly geometric form that facial features would assume in imperial portraiture and sculpture in general.