New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41268-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: Monumenta Graeca et Romana

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schertz, Peter J. M.

Frischer, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Michael R. Taylor

List of Plates and Figures

Plates

1 Introduction

Peter Schertz

2 Introduction with Remarks on the Methodological Implications of the Digital Restoration of the Richmond Caligula

Bernard Frischer

3 The Togatus Statue of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: an Archaeological Description

Mark Abbe

4 Discovery and Modern History of the Richmond Caligula

Maria Grazia Picozzi

5 Caligula: Notes and a Hypothesis about the Ancient Context

Paolo Liverani

6 Reflections on the Typology and Context of the Richmond Caligula

Jan Stubbe Østergaard

7 Beyond Damnatio Memoriae: Memory Sanctions, Caligula’s Portraits and the Richmond Togatus

Eric R. Varner

8 The Image of Caligula: Myth and Reality

John Pollini

9 On the Reputation of Little-Boots

Vasily Rudich

10 Caligula and the Jews: Some Historiographic Reflections Occasioned by Gaius in Polychrome

Steven Fine

11 Caligula Now: Displaying Caligula to a 21st-Century Audience

Peter Schertz

Epilogue: VMFA’s New Display of Caligula

Peter Schertz

Appendix A: Technical Notes on the Conservation Treatment of the VMFA’s Marble Sculpture of Caligula

Amy F. Byrne

Appendix B: Letter to Amy Byrne on the Isotopic Analysis of the Marble of the Head and Torso of the Richmond Caligula
(April 29, 2013)

Scott Pike

Appendix C: Publication History

Prepared by Mark Abbe

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter J.M. Schertz, PhD University of Southern California (2006), is the Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He curated the exhibition The Horse in Ancient Greek Art (2017-2018) and serves as co-director of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project of the Center for Israel Studies of Yeshiva University. He has written on the museum profession and the Second Temple of Jerusalem and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of Art Museum Curators.

Bernard Frischer, Ph.D. University of Heidelberg (1975) is a digital archaeologist who writes about virtual heritage, Classics, and the survival of the Classical world. He started work in Virtual Heritage in the 1990s, when he was founding director of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory. In 2016 he started a five-year project to digitize in 3D all the ancient Greek and Roman statues in Uffizi Gallery in Florence. He was co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the online, peer-reviewed journal, Studies in Digital Heritage, published by the Indiana University Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, which he directs.

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.