Bollingen Series (General). Twelve Caesars : Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern /
Beard, Mary
Bollingen Series (General). Twelve Caesars : Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern / Mary Beard. - 1 online resource (392 p.) : 242 color + 18 b/w illus. - Bollingen Series (General) ; 35 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- I The emperor on the mall: an introduction -- II Who’s who in the twelve Caesars -- III Coins and portraits, ancient and modern -- IV The twelve Caesars, more or less -- V The most famous Caesars of them all -- VI Satire, subversion and assassination -- VII Caesar’s wife . . . above suspicion? -- VIII Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix The Verses underneath Sadeler’s Series of Emperors and Empresses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index
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From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture wars”—Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “twelve Caesars,” from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns.Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of now-forgotten weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambivalent representations of authority.From Beard’s reconstruction of Titian’s extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII’s famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes some fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691225869
10.1515/9780691225869 doi
Art, Roman--Influence.
Art, Roman--Influence.
Emperors--Rome--Portraits.
Kings and rulers--Portraits.
Power (Social sciences) in art.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Aeneid. Agrippina the Younger. Alessandro Farnese (cardinal). Ancient Rome. Ancient art. Ancient history. Andrea Fulvio. Andrea Mantegna. Anselm Kiefer. Antistrophe. Antoninus Pius. Antonio Verrio. Assassination. Aubrey Beardsley. Augustan History. Autocracy. Banality (sculpture series). Bembo. Brindisi. Bust (sculpture). Caesarism. Camerino. Capitoline Museums. Caption (comics convention). Caracalla. Cardinal Mazarin. Chris Riddell. Christina, Queen of Sweden. Classicism. Claudius. Commodus. Cosimo de' Medici. Crucifixion of Jesus. Decapitation. Della Rovere. Denarius. Domitian. Domus Aurea. Egypt (Roman province). Elagabalus. Engraving. Giambattista della Porta. Giulio Romano. Gonzaga Cameo. Hans Memling. Heroic nudity. Illustration. Imperial Armour. Imperialism. Ippolito Buzzi. James Gillray. Judas Iscariot. Kerameikos. La Dolce Vita. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Livilla. Longevity. Manuscript. Marcantonio Raimondi. Max Beerbohm. Messalina. Middle class. Misogyny. Nativity scene. Nicolas Coustou. Nobility. Oliver Cromwell. Ostia (Rome). Paganism. Palinode. Peace treaty. Petrarch. Phrenology. Placard. Portland Vase. Putto. Roman Empire. Roman Imperial Coinage. Roman sculpture. Ruler. Sandro Botticelli. Satire. Schatzkammer. Scientific Method. Sculpture. Sophocles. Statue. Suetonius. Sulla. Tapestry. The Caesars (TV series). The Twelve Caesars. Thomas Couture. Tintoretto. Titian. Trajan's Column. Trajan. Vitellius. William Makepeace Thackeray. Writing.
709.02/16
Bollingen Series (General). Twelve Caesars : Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern / Mary Beard. - 1 online resource (392 p.) : 242 color + 18 b/w illus. - Bollingen Series (General) ; 35 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- I The emperor on the mall: an introduction -- II Who’s who in the twelve Caesars -- III Coins and portraits, ancient and modern -- IV The twelve Caesars, more or less -- V The most famous Caesars of them all -- VI Satire, subversion and assassination -- VII Caesar’s wife . . . above suspicion? -- VIII Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix The Verses underneath Sadeler’s Series of Emperors and Empresses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture wars”—Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “twelve Caesars,” from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns.Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of now-forgotten weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambivalent representations of authority.From Beard’s reconstruction of Titian’s extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII’s famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes some fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691225869
10.1515/9780691225869 doi
Art, Roman--Influence.
Art, Roman--Influence.
Emperors--Rome--Portraits.
Kings and rulers--Portraits.
Power (Social sciences) in art.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Aeneid. Agrippina the Younger. Alessandro Farnese (cardinal). Ancient Rome. Ancient art. Ancient history. Andrea Fulvio. Andrea Mantegna. Anselm Kiefer. Antistrophe. Antoninus Pius. Antonio Verrio. Assassination. Aubrey Beardsley. Augustan History. Autocracy. Banality (sculpture series). Bembo. Brindisi. Bust (sculpture). Caesarism. Camerino. Capitoline Museums. Caption (comics convention). Caracalla. Cardinal Mazarin. Chris Riddell. Christina, Queen of Sweden. Classicism. Claudius. Commodus. Cosimo de' Medici. Crucifixion of Jesus. Decapitation. Della Rovere. Denarius. Domitian. Domus Aurea. Egypt (Roman province). Elagabalus. Engraving. Giambattista della Porta. Giulio Romano. Gonzaga Cameo. Hans Memling. Heroic nudity. Illustration. Imperial Armour. Imperialism. Ippolito Buzzi. James Gillray. Judas Iscariot. Kerameikos. La Dolce Vita. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Livilla. Longevity. Manuscript. Marcantonio Raimondi. Max Beerbohm. Messalina. Middle class. Misogyny. Nativity scene. Nicolas Coustou. Nobility. Oliver Cromwell. Ostia (Rome). Paganism. Palinode. Peace treaty. Petrarch. Phrenology. Placard. Portland Vase. Putto. Roman Empire. Roman Imperial Coinage. Roman sculpture. Ruler. Sandro Botticelli. Satire. Schatzkammer. Scientific Method. Sculpture. Sophocles. Statue. Suetonius. Sulla. Tapestry. The Caesars (TV series). The Twelve Caesars. Thomas Couture. Tintoretto. Titian. Trajan's Column. Trajan. Vitellius. William Makepeace Thackeray. Writing.
709.02/16