The spirituality and the portrait in the time of Constantine

Authors

  • Jorge Tomás García Pesquisador do Instituto da História da Arte da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Keywords:

Plotinus, Galieno, aesthetics, sculpture, Constantine

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to highlight one of the main arguments in the aesthetics of the portrait in the time of Constantine. The importance of neo-Platonism, from time of Emperor Gallienus, had a great impact on the formation of religious, philosophical and aesthetic spirit of Rome. Through a strict approach to philosophical texts that reveal the beauty of the fourth century, we propose to reconstruct the spirituality that defined a crucial time in the birth of a conception of art and the human being in Rome.

Author Biography

Jorge Tomás García, Pesquisador do Instituto da História da Arte da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

INVESTIGADOR DEL INSTITUTO DE HISTÓRIA DA ARTE (UNIV. NOVA LISBOA), DOCTOR EN HISTORIA DEL ARTE Y LICENCIADO EN FILOLOGÍA CLÁSICA (MURCIA, 2010). ACTUALMENTE DESARROLLO UN PROYECTO TITULADO "VISUAL CULTURE IN ROME AND ANCIENT LUSITANIIA". MI LÍNEA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SE CENTRA EN LA ESTÉTICA DE LA PINTURA Y LA ESCULTURA GRIEGA Y ROMANA Y SU POSTERIOR PERVIVENCIA. En estos temas que acabo de citar se han centrado mis monografías (4), mis artículos de investigación (10, la mayoría de ellos en revistas internacionales indexadas), y mis contribuciones a congresos internacionales (15 Congresos Internacionales en España y en extranjero).

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2016-11-03

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