Twelve Caesars by Mary Beard
Author:Mary Beard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
Alma-Tadema did not produce many paintings that featured Roman emperors, but they were far more sophisticated than Fryâs silly generalisation suggests, and would have demanded rather more than âhalf-educationâ.74 The spectacular painting of the Roses of Heliogabalus (Elagabalus), for example, commemorates not merely an imperial practical joke that backfires by smothering his guests; it also vividly points to a paradox lying at the heart of Roman imperial cultureâthat (in the ancient imagination at least) even the kindness and generosity of emperors could be lethal (Fig. 6.23). But Alma-Tademaâs treatment of the accession of Claudius raises further complexities.
6.22 In his Death of Tiberius of 1864, Jean-Paul Laurens magnified the scene of the emperorâs death in his bed into a large format âhistory paintingâ (almost two and a half metres across). For an emperor, death in bed was no guarantee that it was not murder.
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