Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraitureThe 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, portraits could be physically attacked and mutilated or even executed in effigy. From the late first century B.C. until the fourth century A.D., the recycling and destruction of images of emperors, empresses, and other members of the imperial family occurred on a vast scale and often marked periods of violent political transition. 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
Chapter One Developments Implications and Precedents | 1 |
Chapter Two Caligula Milonia Caesonia and Julia Drusilla | 21 |
Sejanus | 92 |
Julia Livilla Julia Drusilla Lollia Paulina and Domitia Lepida | 102 |
Chapter | 111 |
Chapter Seven Commodus Lucilla Crispina and Annia Fundania Faustina | 136 |
Chapter Eight The Severans A D 193235 | 156 |
Severus Alexander and Julia Mammaea | 200 |
Chapter Ten The Early Fourth Century | 214 |
Catalogue of Mutilated and Altered Portraits | 226 |
Commodus Livilla Crispina and Annia Fundania Faustina 7 The Severans Plautilla Geta Macrinus Diadumenianus Elagabalus Severus Alexander | 275 |
Third Century | 283 |
Bibliography | 289 |
307 | |
List of Illustrations and Photo Credits Illustrations | 335 |
289 | 372 |
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Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture Eric R. Varner No preview available - 2004 |
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Agrippina Agrippina Minor Arch Augustus Bergmann Boschung bronze brows bust C.B. Rose Caligula cameo Caracalla Carlsberg Glyptotek chin Claudius coiffure coins Commodus Commodus’s condemnation Constantine cuirassed D.E.E. Kleiner DAIR damage damnatio memoriae depicted display Domitian E.R. Varner earlier literature ears Elagabalus emperor erased eyes face facial features Figure Fittschen Fittschen-Zanker forehead Galba Geta Geta's hair hairstyle images imperial inscription insertion Jucker Julia Julia Domna Julio-Claudian locks Macrinus marble head provenance Maxentius Maximinus memory monuments Musée Musei Vaticani Museo Archeologico Museo Capitolino Museo Nazionale Romano Museum MusNazRom mutilation nape neck Nero Nero’s Neronian Nerva nose numismatic Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek original Ostia Palazzo dei Conservatori panel Plautilla portrait of Nero portrait type publications recarved reconfigured recut refashioned reign relief removed replica representations reuse reworked Roman Rome Sala sculpted sculptural Septimius Severus Severan Severus Alexander statue Suet surviving temple tion togate Trajan Vespasian Wegner Zanker