Resumen de Computer technology and three-dimensional models in determining the recutting of Roman portraits: The Getty Augustus
"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
