![]() ![]() ![]() On the cover: the four illustrations represent the chronological and conceptual span of the mutilation and transformation of Roman imperial images. M o n u m e n ta g r a e c a e t ro m a n a. va r n e rThis book is volume 10 in the series ![]() Thisvolume catalogues and interprets the sculp-tural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphicevidence for damnatio memoriae and ulti-mately reveals its praxis to be at the core ofĪ n d ro m a n i m p e r i a l p o rt r a i t u r eĮ r i c r. until thefourth century a.d., the recycling and de-struction of images of emperors, empresses,and other members of the imperial familyoccurred on a vast scale and often markedperiods of violent political transition. ![]() Alterna-tively, portraits could be physically attackedand mutilated or even executed in effigy.From the late first century b.c. Representations of ‘bad’ em-perors, such as Caligula, Nero, Domitian,Commodus, or Elagabalus were routinelyreconfigured into likenesses of victorioussuccessors or revered predecessors. T h e c o n d e m n a t i o n o f m e m o r yinexorably altered the visual landscape ofimperial Rome. ![]()
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