Golden Excess : Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome /

Golden Excess : Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome /

Golden Excess: Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome is the first monograph to offer a full art historical synthesis of the rich archaeological and monumental evidence for Nero's remarkable principate. An outsized and innovative artistic program emerges, informed by aestheti...

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Main Author: Varner, Eric R. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 76.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Art History.
Classical Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1 Introduction: Chasing the Neronian Mystique
  •  1 Recuperating Multiple "Neros"
  •  2 Becoming Nero
  •  3 After Nero
  • 2 Setting the Stage-the Aesthetics of Empire: Claudius, Agrippina, and the Augustan Inheritance
  •  1 Caligulan Aesthetics? Dynasty, Legitimacy, and Luxury
  •  2 Nero's Earliest Images: Type I Portraits on Coins, Gems, and Sculpture
  •  3 Nero's Sculpted Representations
  •  4 Antiquarianism: a Claudian Cultural Program?
  • 3 The Dawn of a Golden Age? Nero, Seneca, and the Quinquennium Neronis
  •  1 An Ongoing Augustan Axis
  •  2 Agrippina: Optima Mater and Flaminica Divi Claudi
  •  3 Nero Imperator
  •  4 Theomorphic Rhetorics
  •  5 A New Emperor, a New Apollo
  •  6 A New Aurea Aetas
  •  7 The Quinquennium Neronis
  • 4 Neropolis and the Urbs Nova: Nero's Public Building Program in Rome
  •  1 Early Building Initiatives
  •  2 After the Fire: Neropolis and the Urbs Nova
  • 5 Golden Excess Part 1: Nero's Portraits and the Cult of Luxury
  •  1 Radical Portrait Strategies: Innovative Iconography and Physiognomy
  •  2 Learned Luxury Refined
  •  3 Innovations in Numismatic Imagery
  •  4 Headgear
  •  5 Traditional Statuary Formats
  •  6 Theomorphic Rhetorics Continued
  •  7 Solar Alignments Continued: Helios-Apollo-Neronianus
  •  8 Nero's Women
  • 6 Golden Excess, Part 2: the Residences-to Live Like a Human
  •  1 Adaptations and Expansions on the Palatine
  •  2 The Domus Transitoria: Transitive Architecture and Transcendent Decoration
  •  3 The Oppian Wing of the Domus Aurea: Revolutionary Architecture and Outrageous Opulence
  •  4 Collecting the Empire: Sculpture and Painting on Display at the Domus Aurea
  •  5 Topography and History: Exploiting the Oppian
  •  6 Opulence and Innovation Outside of Rome: the Imperial Villas at Subiaco and Anzio
  • 7 Qualis Artefix: Martyr and Monster
  •  1 The Final Hours
  •  2 Rehabilitation under Otho and Vitellius
  •  3 Repurposing Nero's Memory and Monuments
  •  4 Contesting Nero's Memory in Flavian Rome
  •  5 Later Encounters with Nero's Images
  •  6 The Return of Nero: Nero Redivivus
  •  7 Negative Constructions of Nero's Memory in Ancient Authors
  •  8 Reviving Nero's Memory on the Contorniates
  • 8 Aftermath: Icon and Antichrist
  •  1 Establishing an Anti-Christ: Early Christian Assessments
  •  2 Medieval Nero
  •  3 Early Modern Nero
  •  4 The Domus Aurea and the Grotesque
  •  5 Re-assessing Nero's Historical Legacy
  • Bibliography
  • Museum and Collections Index
  • General Index.