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Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual Francesco de Angelis

Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual By Francesco de Angelis

Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual by Francesco de Angelis


Summary

This volume presents current research on Roman emperors' uses of images, ranging from the beard of Nero to Antonine funeral pyres to the roles of arches in shaping urban landscapes. Chronologically, the volume covers the reigns of Augustus through Constantine, and it examines the use of imagery by empresses as well as emperors.

Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual Summary

Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual: Augustus to Fausta by Francesco de Angelis

This volume presents current research on a variety of questions related to Roman emperors' uses of images and architecture. Drawing mainly on sculpture, coinage, and architecture, the papers consider topics ranging from the beard of Nero to Antonine funeral pyres to the roles of arches in shaping urban landscapes. Chronologically, the volume covers the reigns of Augustus through Constantine, and it examines the use of imagery by empresses as well as emperors. The contributors are Fae Amiro, Steven Burges, Laura L. Garofalo, Evan Jewell, Lillian Joyce, Jacob A. Latham, and Rosa Maria Motta, Gretel Rodriguez.

Table of Contents

Jacob A. Latham, Tensa or Triumphal Chariot? The Iconography of (Some) Empty Chariots on Roman Imperial Coins
Evan Jewell, Fashioning an Imperial Aetas: Nero's Portrait, the Depositio Barbae, and the Iuvenalia
Laura L. Garofalo, Sabine Retrospective: Stylistic Archaism in Flavian Imperial Portraiture
Gretel Rodriguez, New Observations on the Three Arches of Benevento
Lillian Joyce, In the Footsteps of Augustus: Hadrian and the Imperial Cult
Fae Amiro, Sabina's Plotina Portrait Type
Steven Burges, The Archaeology of Apotheosis: Roman Coinage, Funerary Pyres, and Imperial Cult Sites
Rosa Maria Motta, Art Appropriation on the Coins of Fausta Flavia Maxima

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GOR013148027
9781948488648
1948488647
Emperors in Images, Architecture and Ritual: Augustus to Fausta by Francesco de Angelis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Archaeological Institute of America
20201201
150
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