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From Caligula to Constantine : tyranny & transformation in Roman portraiture
Title:
From Caligula to Constantine : tyranny & transformation in Roman portraiture
Author:
Varner, Eric R.
Publication Information:
Atlanta : Michael C. Carlos Museum, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia from Sept. 16, 2000 to Jan. 7, 2001, and at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut from Jan. 31 to March 25, 2001.
Language:
English
Contents:
Tyranny and the transformation of the Roman visual landscape / Eric R. Varner -- "What worse than Nero, what better than his baths?" : "Damnatio memoriae" and Roman architecture / Penelope J. E. Davies -- Now you see them, now you don't : the presence and absence of women in Roman art / Diana E. E. Kleiner -- Damnatio memoriae and epigraphy / Harriet I. Flower -- The private sector : reworked portraits outside the imperial circle / Susan B. Matheson -- An altered portrait of the artist : some transformed images in Ovid's Metamorphoses and poetry of exile / Garth Tissol -- Catalogue of the exhibition.
ISBN:
9781928917014
Format :
Book