Twelve Caesars : images of power from the ancient world to the modern
Beard, Mary, 1955-2023
Book
What 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.
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Author:
Beard, Mary, 1955-, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023.
Collation:
392 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691225876 (pbk)
Dewey class:
709.0216
Language:
English
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BRN:
686901