Roman imperial portrait practice in the second century AD : Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger / Christian Niederhuber

• VerfasserIn: Niederhuber, Christian 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford monographs on classical archaeology
• Classification: 15.28 - Römisches Reich; 15.13 - Numismatik. Sphragistik
• Physical Description: xxiv, 214 Seiten; Illustrationen; 28 cm
• Notes: "Revised doctoral thesis" (Seite [vii])

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between portraits on coins and in the round. All ofthis, however, has never been clearly proven, nor has it been disproven by a close systematic examination of the evidence on a broad material basis by those scholars who have questioned it. Through systematic case studies of Faustina the Younger's and Marcus Aurelius' portraits on coins and in sculpture, this book provides new insights into the functioning of the imperial image in Rome in the second century AD that move a difficult, much-discussed subject forward decisively. The newevidence presented here has made it necessary to adjust the established model; more flexibility is needed to describe the processes and practices behind the phenomenon of 'repeated' imperial portraits and how the imperial portrait worked in the mint of Rome and in the metropolitan marble workshops. (Quelle: https://www.amazon.de/dp/0192845659)