Военная история / Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century AD: Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger

Название: Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century AD: Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger
Автор: Christian Niederhuber
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 241
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 10 MB

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 of this, 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.