Imago clipeata

Type of Roman portrait on a round shield

Imago clipeata is a term in the art history of ancient Rome for images of ancestors, famous people or deceased shown as on a round shield. For other periods similar forms are called medallions. In the Roman world the imago clipeata was used to depict the ancestral family tree in patrician houses of the Roman Republic as described by Pliny the Elder.

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