Computer technology and three-dimensional models in determining the recutting of Roman portraits: The Getty Augustus
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J. Pollini [1] ; W. Storage [2]
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[1] University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Estados Unidos
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[2] University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 31-37
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
"Damnatio memoriae", damnation of an individual's memory, especially for political reasons, was a recurring phenomenon in ancient Rome. As a result, marble portraits of leaders and their family were often recut into images of others, usually imperial successors or divinized predecessors. 3-D computer models now allow researchers to project a suspected reworked portrait into an unreworked one to determine how recutting might have been executed. This method was qpplied to a portrait of Augustus in the J. Paul Getty Museum that was long thought to have been recut from a protrait of the damned emperor Caligula. The results of our computer modeling showed instead that the head of Augustus was only slightly reworked from one of his earlier portrait types
