The Meroe Head of Augustus - Couverture souple

Opper, Thorsten

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714150916 ISBN 13 : 9780714150918

Editeur : British Museum Press, 2015

Synopsis

The Mero Head of Augustus, 9780714150918

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thorsten Opper is a curator of Greek and Roman Sculpture at the British Museum, specializing in ancient portraiture, the Greek world in the Roman period, and the collecting and restoration of ancient sculpture in the eighteenth century. Thorsten joined the British Museum in 2001 from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. His previous publications include Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (London, British Museum Press, 2008).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the Meroe Head is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesars great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BCAD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Romes revered first true emperor one of many such statues that were erected in Egyptian towns the head was violently separated from the body and carried away in triumph by ancient Meroitic tribesman shortly after its creation. For nearly two millennia it remained buried in front of a temple in their capital city of Meroe (modern Sudan), so that worshippers ritually had to trample the face of the supreme leader of Rome. The head was recovered in 1910 and remarkably well preserved, is one of the British Museums most treasured objects. This book reveals the significance of the head in light of Augustus rise to power and the role of portraits in the Roman world. Accompanied by a series of new photographs that highlight the wonderful, dramatic qualities of the head, this is an absorbing introduction about a portrait which was made as a continuous reminder of the all-embracing power of Rome, yet whose fate is a graphic illustration of resistance to its rule.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Museum Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714150916
• ISBN 13: 9780714150918
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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