From Caligula to Constantine : tyranny & transformation in Roman portraiture / edited by Eric R. Varner ; with contributions by Sheramy D. Bundrick ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varner, Eric R.

Bundrick, Sheramy D.

Michael C. Carlos Museum.

Yale University. Art Gallery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait sculpture, Roman--Exhibitions.

Portrait sculpture, Roman.

Coins, Roman.

Kings and rulers.

Portraits.

Rome--Kings and rulers--Portraits--Exhibitions.

Rome.

Coins, Roman--Exhibitions.

Kings and rulers in numismatics--Rome--Exhibitions.

Kings and rulers in numismatics.

Sculpture--Mutilation, defacement, etc--Rome.

Sculpture.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Tyranny & transformation

Tyranny and transformation

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Michael C. Carlos Museum, [2000]

Contents:

Tyranny and the transformation of the Roman visual landscape / Eric R. Varner

"What worse than Nero, what better than his baths?" : "Damnatio memoriae" and Roman architecture / Penelope J. E. Davies

Now you see them, now you don't : the presence and absence of women in Roman art / Diana E. E. Kleiner

Damnatio memoriae and epigraphy / Harriet I. Flower

The private sector : reworked portraits outside the imperial circle / Susan B. Matheson

An altered portrait of the artist : some transformed images in Ovid's Metamorphoses and poetry of exile / Garth Tissol

Catalogue of the exhibition.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia from Sept. 16, 2000 to Jan. 7, 2001, and at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut from Jan. 31 to March 25, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250).

ISBN:

1928917011

OCLC:

45076374