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Biometric Portraits of Emperors on the Roman Coins [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Here we want to show that the Romans used some biometric measurements when they struck the portraits of their Emperors on coins. That is, the Roman coins were made considering some measurements to give a truthful portrait of the Roman leaders.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina +1 more
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
, 2020 This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago.
Cartwright, Caroline, Svoboda, Marie
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The Marble of Roman Imperial Portraits
ASMOSIA XI, Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone, Proceedings of the XI International Conference of ASMOSIA, 2018 The marble provenance of 163 Roman Imperial portraits, stretching approximately over 500 years, has been established with the purpose of obtaining quantitative, diachronic data on the use of sculptural marbles in Roman times. The overall result shows that Göktepe was the most widely used variety (45%) followed at a great distance by the Parian ...
Attanasio, Donato +3 more
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Facial recognition as a tool to identify Roman emperors: towards a new methodology
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Portraits of Roman emperors are traditionally recognised by their unique coiffure patterns, a method that runs the risk of ignoring portraits that do not cohere to the standardised image of the emperor. This article investigates whether it is possible to
Darshan Srirangachar Ramesh +4 more
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An intriguing lady from Roman Egypt:New research on a mummy portrait on canvas [PDF]
, 2021 Worldwide, there are about a thousand mummy portraits left from Roman Egypt, which have become scattered in hundreds of museum and private collections. Most of the portraits were painted on wood and placed on the mummy's face. About 5% of these portraits
Hupperetz, W.
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Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2021 The paper discusses the emblematic congratulatory writings and family trees which Dominik Franz Calin von Marien- berg (1624–1683) created for Emperor Leopold I.
Polona Vidmar
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The Young Lady in Pink. New Light on the Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Portrait
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2022 A Roman-Egyptian mummy portrait of a young woman in a pink tunic is part of the Allard Pierson collection in Amsterdam. The portrait is well-known and a key piece of the collection, but has received little scholarly attention so far.
Jan M. van Daal +1 more
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Roman sculptural portrait and votive portrait of the Roman republic time (preliminary comparative data on composite portraits) [PDF]
Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2021 The materials for the composite portraits were images from electronic antique collections of museums, image banks and catalogs. To obtain visual images of the studied groups, the composite portrait method was used in a digital program. Results and discussion.
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Body Politics and Mythic Figures: Andrea Doria in the Mediterranean World
California Italian Studies, 2016 This article considers the "agency of images" in "mediating identity" of the Genoese admiral Andrea Doria (1466-1560). Doria was represented in an extraordinary group of portraits as an ancient Roman sea captain and nude Neptune, god of the seas. These
George Lawrence Gorse
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Journal of Mosaic Research, 2020 This article draws inspiration from Jean-Pierre Darmon’s belief that the figural mosaics decorating Roman private homes often have an educational function, serving as a form of paideia and representing cherished social and cultural values of the ...
David PARRISH
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