Imago clipeata
Musée du Louvre
.Imago clipeata (
Latin: Stemma) in patrician houses of the Roman Republic as described by Pliny the Elder (Historia Naturalis 35: 4–11).[2][3]
These shield portraits can be seen in architectural sculptural decorations, on sarcophagi and on standards of the Roman legions among many other types of representations in the Roman and Early Christian world. In Italian Baroque imagery, medallion portraits supported by nymphs or genii came to signify an apotheosis. In this context they might be called tondi.
References
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- ^ "Description and reproduction of Imago clipeata at the Forum of Augustus on the Athenian Acropolis". Archived from the original on 2005-04-12. Retrieved 2005-04-04.
- ^ Winkes, Rolf (1969). Clipeata imago. Bonn.
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