Speaker: Dr. Fred S. Kleiner, Professor of History of Art and Archaeology, Chair of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
The emperors of Rome employed the finest artists of their day to create portraits and relief sculptures celebrating the rulers' achievements, real and fictional, and to commemorate their deification after the deaths. They also asked the same artists to modify or destroy the monuments of emperors whose memories the Senate had damned. This lecture will examine the Roman use of art to manipulate public opinion and the writing and rewriting of history in selected masterpieces of Roman "historical" art.
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