TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beard,Mary
TI  - Bollingen Series (General). Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern 
T2  - Bollingen Series (General)
SN  - 9780691225869
U1  - 709.02/16 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Art, Roman
KW  - Influence
KW  - Emperors
KW  - Rome
KW  - Portraits
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Power (Social sciences) in art
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeneid
KW  - Agrippina the Younger
KW  - Alessandro Farnese (cardinal)
KW  - Ancient Rome
KW  - Ancient art
KW  - Ancient history
KW  - Andrea Fulvio
KW  - Andrea Mantegna
KW  - Anselm Kiefer
KW  - Antistrophe
KW  - Antoninus Pius
KW  - Antonio Verrio
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Aubrey Beardsley
KW  - Augustan History
KW  - Autocracy
KW  - Banality (sculpture series)
KW  - Bembo
KW  - Brindisi
KW  - Bust (sculpture)
KW  - Caesarism
KW  - Camerino
KW  - Capitoline Museums
KW  - Caption (comics convention)
KW  - Caracalla
KW  - Cardinal Mazarin
KW  - Chris Riddell
KW  - Christina, Queen of Sweden
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Claudius
KW  - Commodus
KW  - Cosimo de' Medici
KW  - Crucifixion of Jesus
KW  - Decapitation
KW  - Della Rovere
KW  - Denarius
KW  - Domitian
KW  - Domus Aurea
KW  - Egypt (Roman province)
KW  - Elagabalus
KW  - Engraving
KW  - Giambattista della Porta
KW  - Giulio Romano
KW  - Gonzaga Cameo
KW  - Hans Memling
KW  - Heroic nudity
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Imperial Armour
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Ippolito Buzzi
KW  - James Gillray
KW  - Judas Iscariot
KW  - Kerameikos
KW  - La Dolce Vita
KW  - Lawrence Alma-Tadema
KW  - Livilla
KW  - Longevity
KW  - Manuscript
KW  - Marcantonio Raimondi
KW  - Max Beerbohm
KW  - Messalina
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Nativity scene
KW  - Nicolas Coustou
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Oliver Cromwell
KW  - Ostia (Rome)
KW  - Paganism
KW  - Palinode
KW  - Peace treaty
KW  - Petrarch
KW  - Phrenology
KW  - Placard
KW  - Portland Vase
KW  - Putto
KW  - Roman Empire
KW  - Roman Imperial Coinage
KW  - Roman sculpture
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Sandro Botticelli
KW  - Satire
KW  - Schatzkammer
KW  - Scientific Method
KW  - Sculpture
KW  - Sophocles
KW  - Statue
KW  - Suetonius
KW  - Sulla
KW  - Tapestry
KW  - The Caesars (TV series)
KW  - The Twelve Caesars
KW  - Thomas Couture
KW  - Tintoretto
KW  - Titian
KW  - Trajan's Column
KW  - Trajan
KW  - Vitellius
KW  - William Makepeace Thackeray
KW  - Writing
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225869?locatt=mode:legacy
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