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Individual and Group in early-imperial Roman Protraiture

Speaker: Katharina Lorenz, University of Nottingham

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 1 March 2017,  at 14:15 - 15:15

Location

Aarhus University, Nobelparken, Building 1461, meetingroom 516

Organizer

Trine Hass, Vinnie Nørskov and Troels Myrup Kristensen

Successor portraits, along with the introduction of dynastic phenotypes and their distribution across the empire, are among the most profound innovations of Roman portraiture practice under Julio-Claudian rule.
However, the portraits of these princes have resisted various attempts at explanation; the mechanics of this genre are still little understood.


This paper demonstrates what is gained, and what lost by approaching this material with specific sets of questions; it proposes a new framework of analysis and interpretation that zooms in on the way in which these portraits functioned in the public group portraits of the imperial family. 

Abstract