Title: Portraits of Livia
First published: November 13, 1998
Description: "Driven by the Novelty of her role as empress, Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, invented a visual language of female rank and status that was to have a profound impact on Roman art. The portrait solutions that she devised cleverly promoted the cultural programs of Augustus and his successors, Tiberius and Claudius, as well as her role in the imperial line of succession. In this study, Elizabeth Bartman sets Livia's imagery within its sociopolitical context while also analyzing the role played by gender in its formulation. Richly illustrated and including descriptive catalogue entries of more than 110 surviving portraits, as well as the epigraphic testimony for scores of images now lost, this study presents documentation of Livia's image during the more than sixty years of her public life in Rome."--Jacket.
Subjects: Portrait sculpture, Roman, Art, Roman Portrait sculpture, History, Livia, empress, consort of augustus, emperor of rome, approximately 56 b.c.-29 a.d., Catalogs, Women in art
Places: Rome
People: Livia Empress, consort of Augustus, Emperor of Rome (ca. 58 B.C.-29 A.D)
Time periods: Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
LC classification: NB165.L58 B37 1999