Mutilation and Transformation : Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture /

The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. Representations of 'bad' emperors, such as Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, or Elagabalus were routinely reconfigured into likenesses of victorious successors or revered predecessors. Alternatively, por...

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Main Author: Varner, Eric (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

Series: Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; 10.
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.

Subjects:

Art > Political aspects > Rome.

ART > Popular Culture.

Portrait sculpture, Roman.

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