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Roman Portraits
A wonderful collection of the expressive and powerful Roman portrait sculptures.
Ludwig Goldscheider, photographs by IIse Schneider-Lengyel
Editions:
Price: USD$22.95
230 points- Paperback
- English
- 304 x 224 mm, 12 x 8 7/8 in
- 140 pp
- 136 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714844367
- ISBN-10: 0714844365
- Faithful reprint of a classic Phaidon plate book, first published in 1940
- Wonderful collection of the expressive and powerful sculpted portraits at which the Romans excelled
- Beautifully photographed by a master photographer of sculpture
- Lively and informative text by Ludwig Goldscheider, one of the founders of Phaidon Press
- Captures the unique quality of the original publication
- Companion volume to the same author's bestselling Rodin and Michelangelo
'Astonishingly expressive … The shock of direct recognition is due not only to the power of the classical sculptors, but also to the photographer’s unvarying emphasis on the faces.' (The Times)
Ludwig Goldscheider (1896-1973) was a distinguished art historian and book designer, and co-founder of Phaidon Press in Vienna in 1923.
Ilse Schneider-Lengyel (1903-72) was a writer and photographer who specialized in sculpture. Her photographs are reproduced in two other classic works by Goldscheider, Rodin and Michelangelo, also published by Phaidon.
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