Roman portrait sculpture

The Topic:

Roman portrait sculpture began in the Republican period with the veristic portraits and imagines of ancestors, commissioned by aristocrats for use in funerary processions and other public processions. Emperors continued the same practice, and used their images for political purposes, distributing images of the emperor throughout the empire to project a particular image of the leadership. You can get a brief introduction of the topic through the Met's article by visiting http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropo2/hd_ropo2.htm. (The Met article is not suitable for your Review of Scholarship.)

Bibliography

Alberston, A. 2005. "The creation and dissemination of Roman imperial portrait types: the case of Marcus Aurelius Type IV." JdI 119: 259-306. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Alcock, S. and Morrison, K. 2001. "Imperial ideologies." In Alcock et al., Eds, 279-82. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Alcock, S. et al., Eds. Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Cambridge: University Press. (Should provide a suitable chapter, and should be at Auraria)

Barrett, A. 2002. Livia: First lady of Imperial Rome. (Should provide a suitable chapter)

Bartman, Elizabeth. 1999. Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Women in Augustan Rome. (Should provide a suitable chapter)

Beard, M. and J. Henderson. 2001. Classical Art from Greece to Rome. Oxford: University Press. (p. 214-230 are suitable for Review of Scholarship, discuss portraits of Augustus and his family)

Breckenridge, James D. 1968. Likeness: A Conceptual History of Ancient Portraiture. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Charlesworth, M. 1937. "The Virtues of a Roman Emperor: Propaganda and the Creation of Belief." Proceedings of the British Academy 123: 103-33. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Elsner, J. 1995. Art and the Roman Viewer. (Chapter 5 is suitable, and the book should be at Auraria)

---. 2001. "Inventing Empire in Ancient Rome." In Alcock, S. et al., Eds. Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Cambridge: University Press. (Auraria?)

Evans, J. 1992. The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus. (Should provide a suitable chapter, and be found at Auraria)

Flower, H.I. 1996. Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture. (Especially Chapters 3 & 7, which are suitable for Review of Scholarship. Book should be at Auraria)

*Gregory, A. 1994. '"Powerful images": responses to portraits and the political uses of images in Rome". JRA 7: 80-99 (Ask me for a copy)

Hannestad, N. 1986. Roman Art and Imperial Policy. (Should provide a suitable chapter)

Ingholt, H. 1969. “The Prima Porta Statue of Augustus.” Archaeology 22: 177-87; 304-18. (Auraria Online?)

*King, C.E. 2002. "Roman Portraiture: Images of Power?" In Roman Coins and Public Life Under the Empire, edited by G.M. Paul et al. E. Togo Salmon Papers 11. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Ask me for a copy)

Kleiner, D.E.E. 1992. Roman Sculpture. New Haven, CO: Yale University Press. (Chapter 2 is suitable for Review of Scholarship. Book should be at Auraria)

McCann, A.M. 1967. Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome: The Portraits of Septimius Severus. Vol 30. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

*Nodelman, S. 1993. "How to Read a Roman Portrait." In E. D'Ambra. Roman Art in Context: An Anthology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (Ask me for a digital copy). (Reprint from Art in America 63 (Jan/Feb 1975): 26-33)

Norena, C. 2001. "The Communication of the Emperor's Virtues." JRS 91: 146-68. (Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3184774)

Pollini, J. 1987. The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar. (Should provide a suitable chapter and should be at Auraria)

Rich, J. 1998. "Augustus' Parthian Honours, the temple of Mars Ultor, and the arch in the Forum Romanum." PBSR 66: 71-128. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Richter, G. 1948. Roman Portraits. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Roller, M. 2001. Constructing Aristocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome. Princeton: University Press. (Should provide a suitable chapter)

Rose, C.B. 1997. Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period. (Should provide a suitable chapter)

Smith, R.R.R. 1981. "Greeks, Foreigners, and Roman Republican Portraits." JRS 71: 24-38. (Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/299494)

*---. 1996. “Typology and diversity in the portraits of Augustus.” JRA 9: 31-47. (Ask me for a copy)

---. 1999. "Late Antique Portraits in a Public Context: Honorific Statuary at Aphrodisias in Caria, A.D. 300-600" JRS 89: 155-189. (Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/300739)

Sutherland, C.H.V. 1951. Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy, 31 BC - AD 68. London: Methuen. (If you are interested in portraits of emperors on coins, you will want to look through the 'Greek and Roman coins' bibliography instead of this one.) (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Tanner, J. 2000. "Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic." JRS 90: 18-50. (Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/300199)

Torelli, M. 1982. Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs. (Unsuitable for Review of Scholarship)

Varner, E.R., et al. 2000. From Caligula to Constantine: tyranny and transformation in Roman Portraiture. Michael C. Carlos Museum. (Should provide a suitable chapter)

Wallace-Hadrill, A. 1986. “Image and authority in the coinage of Augustus.” JRS 76: 66-87. (Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/300366)

Wood, S. Imperial Women: a study in public images, 40 BC – AD 68. 1999. (A well-illustrated study from an excellent scholar. Should provide a suitable chapter)

Zanker, P. 1988/1990. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. (Will provide a suitable chapter. Should be at Auraria)

Prima Porta Augustus vs. Aegean equestrian Augustus (Athens)

Klynne, A. and Peter Liljenstolpe. 2000. "Where to put Augustus? A Note on the Placement of the Prima Porta Statue" American Journal of Philology 121: 121-8. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1561649)

*Pollini, J. 1995. ‘The Augustus of Prima Porta and the transformation of the Polykleitan heroic ideal". In W. Moon, Ed., Polykleitos, the Doryphoros and Tradition: 262-82. (Ask me for a copy)

Reeder, J.C. 1997. ‘The statue of Augustus from Prima Porta,the Underground Complex, and the Omen of the Gallina Alba" American Journal of Philology 118: 89-118. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1562101)

Simpson, C. 2005. ‘Where is the Parthian?’ Latomus 64: 82-90. (Ask me for a copy)

Gemma Augustea vs. Boscoreale Cup

Pollini, J. ‘The Gemma Augustea." In P. Holliday, Ed. Narrative and event in ancient art: 258-98. (Available at GMU)

Kuttner, A. 1995. Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the Boscoreale cups. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Available at GMU)

The Sebasteion vs. the Metroon at Olympia

Rose, C.B. 1997. 'The imperial image in the eastern Mediterranean', in S.E. Alcock, Ed. The Early Roman Empire in the East: 108-20. (Available at UVA)

Smith, R.R.R. 1987. ‘The imperial reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias,’ JRS 77: 88-138. (Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/300577)

Stone, S. 1985. ‘The imperial sculpture group in the Metroon at Olympia.’ Mitteilungen des deutschen archaölogischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 100: 377-391. (Ask me for a copy)