New studies on the portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts /

New studies on the portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts /

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Meeting name:	Caligula 3D: Man, Myth, and Emperor (Symposium) (2011 : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 122 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color).
Language:	English
Series:	Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 0169-8850 ; volume 26 Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 26.
Subject:	Caligula (Sculpture) -- Congresses. Portrait sculpture, Roman -- Expertising -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Congresses. Polychromy -- Rome -- Congresses. Polychromy Portrait sculpture, Roman -- Expertising Rome (Empire) Virginia -- Richmond Conference papers and proceedings
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13514063

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Other authors / contributors:	Schertz, Peter, editor. Frischer, Bernard, editor.
ISBN:	9004417362 9789004417366 9789004412682
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2021).
Summary:	"The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts address art historical, historical, cultural and museological issues raised by one of two surviving intact statues of the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 C.E.). Contributions focus on the creation of a 3D-digital model of the statue and the search for traces of its original polychromy; the history of the statue from its creation to the present, including its rediscovery at a Julio-Claudian sanctuary at Bovillae; aspects of Caligula's literary and visual portrayal in antiquity and modern historiography (including questions concerning the destruction of his portraits and the implications of Jewish sources for the study of Caligula); and the emperor's image in popular culture. Contributors are: Peter J.M. Schertz; Bernard Frischer; Mark Abbe; Maria Grazia Picozzi; Paolo Liverani; Jan Stubbe Østergaard; Eric Varner; John Pollini; Vasily Rudich; Steven Fine; Amy Byrne"--
Other form:	Print version: Caligula 3D: Man, Myth, and Emperor (Symposium) (2011 : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) New studies on the portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004412682

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Summary:	The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts address art historical, historical, cultural and museological issues raised by one of two surviving intact statues of the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 C.E.). Contributions focus on the creation of a 3D-digital model of the statue and the search for traces of its original polychromy; the history of the statue from its creation to the present, including its rediscovery at a Julio-Claudian sanctuary at Bovillae; aspects of Caligula's literary and visual portrayal in antiquity and modern historiography (including questions concerning the destruction of his portraits and the implications of Jewish sources for the study of Caligula); and the emperor's image in popular culture.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 122 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9004417362 9789004417366 9789004412682
ISSN:	0169-8850 ;