0223 The Emperor as Living Image in Late Antique Authors
Between the early imperial and early Byzantine periods, in descriptions of the ruler’s body we can identify, grosso modo, two main tendencies: A realistic strain (as exemplified by the imperial portraits in Svetonius) that is anti-iconic in that it prevented the idealisation of the ruler often found...
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International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)
2019-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/68111 |