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Mutilation and transformation : Damnatio Memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture / by Eric R. Varner.
Fine Arts Library NB1296.3 .V37 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varner, Eric R.
- Series:
- Monumenta Graeca et Romana 0169-8850 ; v. 10.
- Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 0169-8850 ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portrait sculpture, Roman.
- Art--Political aspects--Rome.
- Art.
- Kings and rulers.
- Rome--Kings and rulers--Portraits.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 340 pages, 120 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. This volume catalogues and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for damnatio memoriae and ultimately reveals its praxis to be at the core of Roman cultural identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-305) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9004135774
- OCLC:
- 55738284
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