Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture.(essay)(Critical essay) From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Pollini, John | COPYRIGHT 2006 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ERIC R. VARNER

Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture

Leiden: Brill, 2004. 340 pp.; 215 b/w ills. $287.00

In the last three decades, scholars and students of Roman art have become increasingly aware of the fact that a good number of imperial portraits were recut or otherwise altered in antiquity, usually because of the damnation of an individual's memory. Memoria damnata, which was generally politically moti...

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