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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820668203321

Autore

Varner Eric R

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2004

ISBN

1-280-91476-9

9786610914760

90-474-0470-X

1-4294-2747-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

306.4/7/0937

Soggetti

Portrait sculpture, Roman

Art - Political aspects - Rome

Rome Kings and rulers Portraits

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.