The Emperor Vanishes.(analyzing the 'From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture' exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery)
From: Art in America
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Date: 3/1/2001
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Author: NODELMAN, SHELDON
A traveling exhibition of portraits from imperial Rome, now at Yale, documents how identities were appropriated and transformed in the era ruthless cycles of political ascension and disfavor.
Roman imperial art has a fair claim to be regarded as the postmodern art of antiquity. Only recently has our own experience equipped us to appreciate properly some of its most distinctive features--those which for so long consigned it to the status of an inconvenient stepchild in the canon ...
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