Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture / by Eric R. Varner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varner, Eric R.

Series:

Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 10.

Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 0169-8850 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait sculpture, Roman.

Art--Political aspects--Rome.

Art.

Rome--Kings and rulers--Portraits.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Developments, Implications, and Precedents

Chapter Two: Caligula, Milonia Ceasonia and Julia Drusilla

Chapter Three: Neor and Poppaea

Chapter Four: Other Julio-Claudians

Chapter Five: A.D. 69

Chapter Six: Domitian

Chapter Seven: Commodus, Lucilla, Crispina and Annia Fundania Faustina

Chapter Eight: The Severans A.D. 193-235

Chapter Nine: The Later Third Century (235-285)

Chapter Ten: The Early Fourth Century

Catalogue 1: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Caligula

Catalogue 2: The Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Nero

Catalogue 3: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Julio-Claudians

Catalogue 4: The Mutilated and Altered Portraits of A.D. 69

Catalogue 5: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Domitian

Catalogue 6: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Commodus, Livilla, Crispina and Annia Fundian Faustina

Catalogue 7: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Severans. Plautilla, Geta, Macrinus, Diadumenianus, Elagabalus, Severus Alexander and Julia Mammaea

Catalogue 8: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Third Century

Catalogue 9: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Fourth Century

Selected Bibliography

Index of Museums and Collections

General Index

List of Illustrations and Photo Credits

Illustrations 1-215.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-91476-9

9786610914760

90-474-0470-X

1-4294-2747-7

OCLC:

191929114