I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society

I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome--an exhibition and catalog produced by the Yale University Art Gallery--provided the first comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. Responding to the popular success of the exhibit and catalog, Diana E. E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson here gather ten additional essays by specialists in art history, history, and papyrology to offer further reflections on women in Roman society based on the material evidence provided by art, archaeology, and ancient literary sources.

In addition to the editors, the contributors are Cornelius C. Vermeule, Rolf Winkes, Mary T. Boatwright, Susan Wood, Eve D'Ambra, Andrew Oliver, Diana Delia, and Ann Ellis Hanson. Their essays, illustrated with black-and-white photos of the art under discussion, treat such themes as mothers and sons, marriage and widowhood, aging, adornment, imperial portraiture, and patronage.

Author: Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale University Art Gallery
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 07/01/2000
Pages: 191
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 11.03h x 8.61w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780292743403

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2001 pg. 1676

About the Author
Diana E. E. Kleiner is Deputy Provost for the Arts and Dunham Professor of Classics and History of Art at Yale University. Susan B. Matheson is the Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.