imagines majorum

Japanese: imagines majorum(英語表記)imaginesmajorum
imagines majorum

...This is a new style of housing unique to Rome, and representative remains include Tiberius' Villa (early 1st century, Capri) and Hadrian's Villa (early 2nd century, Tivoli). [Seiji Horiuchi]
[Sculpture]
The realism of portrait sculpture in the late Republican period is said to have originated from Etruscan sculpture and the Roman imagines majorum (figures of ancestors), but it was also strongly influenced by the realism of Hellenistic art, as is evident in the statue of Brutus and the Barberini in a Toga.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "imagines majorum" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これはローマ独自の新しい住宅形式で,代表的遺構としてティベリウスのウィラ(1世紀初め,カプリ)やハドリアヌスのウィラ(2世紀初め,ティボリ)などが知られる。【堀内 清治】
【彫刻】
 共和政末期の肖像彫刻の写実性は,エトルリア彫刻とローマ社会におけるイマギネス・マヨルムimagines majorum(祖先像)に由来するといわれるが,ヘレニズム美術の写実主義の影響が強い。それは,《ブルトゥス像》や《バルベリーニのトガ像》に明らかである。…

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