John Pollini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Pollini |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollini |
| SIGNATURE | POLLINI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Some New Observations on and Reconstruction of the Colossal Statue of Constantine in the Capitoline Museum in Rome
This article reconsiders some of the most important recent scholarship on the recut colossal acrolithic (marble and bronze) statue of Constantine in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Discussed in this article are the various past attempts to determine from which previous emperor or divinity the statue might have bene recut and reused in a new setting, as well as past reconstructions of the statue. To this discussion,…
The Statue of Germanicus from Amelia
DIS MANIBVS GERMANICI IVLII CAESARIS (on the 2,000th anniversary of his death) This archaeological note presents the findings from a scientific analysis of the bronze of an over-life-sized cuirassed statue of Germanicus from Amelia (ancient Ameria). The examination was recently carried out in the Museo Archeologico di Amelia to determine both the nature of the statue's production and its relative dating. The 41 nondestructive X-ray fluorescence s…
Burning Rome, Burning Christians
The “lost” Nollekens Relief of an imperial sacrifice from Domitian's Palace on the Palatine
Mainstream classical scholarship has long considered as lost a Roman “historical” relief, excavated in the earlier part of the 18th c. in the Palace of Domitian on the Palatine hill. Showing an emperor sacrificing, it is known as the Nollekens Relief after Joseph Nollekens, an accomplished British sculptor who came to possess it in the 18th c. Besides being a sculptor and painter, he was a sculptural restorer and dealer active between 1761 and 17…
A short note on the archaeometric study of two sculptures in the Gabinetto Segreto of Naples National Archeological Museum
The Bronze Statue of Germanicus from Ameria (Amelia)
Although discovered more than 50 years ago near Amelia (Italy), a bronze cuirassed statue of Germanicus has gained relatively little attention. Represented on its elaborate breastplate is the death of Trojan Troilus at the hands of Achilles. The author of the principal monograph on the statue proposes that it originally portrayed King Mithridates VI, who saw himself as a new Achilles in his war against Rome. According to this theory, the depictio…
Anna Marguerite McCann, 1933-2017
A portrait of Caracalla from the mellerio collection and the iconography of Caracalla and Geta
Un portrait de Caracalla dans la Collection Mellerio et l’iconographie de Caracalla et Géta Une tête en marbre, achetée au début du XX e siècle par le joallier Mellerio, est restée à Paris, dans une autre collection. L’A. démontre que l’hésitation à y reconnaître l’un des fils de Septime Sévère vient du fait que les deux adolescents, d’âge très proche, sont difficiles à distinguer dans la deuxième série dite du « Successor Type II » de la typolog…
Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service
From the literary, epigraphic and archaeological record, we know much about the institution of slavery in the Roman period, but far less about the way in which slaves were represented in art. This chapter concerns principally with images of slave-'boys' in the later Julio-Claudian and Flavian periods. Besides designating a male as opposed to a female, the Latin word for 'boy', puer, has essentially two meanings: a prepubertal free-born boy or a m…
Conclusions
Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization
This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication of a cache of eight bronzes from east-central Gaul. The types of objects and accompanying inscriptions suggest that these bronzes originally came from a sanctuary of a god named Cobannus. The first part of the book describes, analyzes, and interprets the individual objects, which are divided between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Shelby White - Leon Levy Collection. The latter part of th…
Parian lychnites and the Prima Porta statue
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Between Republic and Empire
The Cartoceto Bronzes
The "Cartoceto Bronzes," an important group of four over-life-size, gilded bronze figures (two equestrian male and two standing female statues), have been dated from the second half of the first century B. C. to the latter part of the first century A. C. Portrait comparisons indicate that past identifications of these figures as members of the Julian or Julio-Claudian family are incorrect and that a previously overlooked late Republican-early Aug…
The marble type of the statue of Augustus from Prima Porta
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The Tazza Farnese
New suggestions are offered for the identity and meaning of both central and peripheral figures represented on the famous Tazza Farnese. It is argued that this splendid sardonyx phiale was not produced for the court of Ptolemaic Egypt, as is commonly believed, but was a product of Augustan art, probably created during the earlier part of the principate of Augustus. It is also proposed that this vessel, possibly commissioned by or for Augustus, wa…
The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar
Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and Some Others on the Ara Pacis
In light of recent interest in the identification of children and prominent adults in the exterior processional friezes of the Ara Pacis, old evidence is re-examined and new arguments are offered regarding these figures. The old identifications of two children in the south frieze as Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. A. D. 32 and future father of Nero) and his sister Domitia are defended. The Flamen Iulialis in the south frieze is seen not as Sext…
Visual Narratives, Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art
Damnatio Memoriae in Stone
Two Roman portraits of good quality, one in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the other in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, have not previously been recognized as having been recut from the image of one individual into the likeness of another. Comparative iconography and other evidence indicate that both sculptures are portraits of the Emperor Vespasian (69-79 A. C.) reworked from likenesses of Nero, who had suffered a de facto damnatio memoriae…
Visual Narratives, Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art
The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar
A short note on the archaeometric study of two sculptures in the Gabinetto Segreto of Naples National Archeological Museum
Parian lychnites and the Prima Porta statue
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Tazza Farnese
New suggestions are offered for the identity and meaning of both central and peripheral figures represented on the famous Tazza Farnese. It is argued that this splendid sardonyx phiale was not produced for the court of Ptolemaic Egypt, as is commonly believed, but was a product of Augustan art, probably created during the earlier part of the principate of Augustus. It is also proposed that this vessel, possibly commissioned by or for Augustus, wa…
Damnatio Memoriae in Stone
Two Roman portraits of good quality, one in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the other in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, have not previously been recognized as having been recut from the image of one individual into the likeness of another. Comparative iconography and other evidence indicate that both sculptures are portraits of the Emperor Vespasian (69-79 A. C.) reworked from likenesses of Nero, who had suffered a de facto damnatio memoriae…
The Bronze Statue of Germanicus from Ameria (Amelia)
Although discovered more than 50 years ago near Amelia (Italy), a bronze cuirassed statue of Germanicus has gained relatively little attention. Represented on its elaborate breastplate is the death of Trojan Troilus at the hands of Achilles. The author of the principal monograph on the statue proposes that it originally portrayed King Mithridates VI, who saw himself as a new Achilles in his war against Rome. According to this theory, the depictio…
The Cartoceto Bronzes
The "Cartoceto Bronzes," an important group of four over-life-size, gilded bronze figures (two equestrian male and two standing female statues), have been dated from the second half of the first century B. C. to the latter part of the first century A. C. Portrait comparisons indicate that past identifications of these figures as members of the Julian or Julio-Claudian family are incorrect and that a previously overlooked late Republican-early Aug…
Damnatio Memoriae in Stone
Two Roman portraits of good quality, one in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the other in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, have not previously been recognized as having been recut from the image of one individual into the likeness of another. Comparative iconography and other evidence indicate that both sculptures are portraits of the Emperor Vespasian (69-79 A. C.) reworked from likenesses of Nero, who had suffered a de facto damnatio memoriae…
Visual Narratives, Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art
Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and Some Others on the Ara Pacis
In light of recent interest in the identification of children and prominent adults in the exterior processional friezes of the Ara Pacis, old evidence is re-examined and new arguments are offered regarding these figures. The old identifications of two children in the south frieze as Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. A. D. 32 and future father of Nero) and his sister Domitia are defended. The Flamen Iulialis in the south frieze is seen not as Sext…
The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar
The marble type of the statue of Augustus from Prima Porta
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Tazza Farnese
New suggestions are offered for the identity and meaning of both central and peripheral figures represented on the famous Tazza Farnese. It is argued that this splendid sardonyx phiale was not produced for the court of Ptolemaic Egypt, as is commonly believed, but was a product of Augustan art, probably created during the earlier part of the principate of Augustus. It is also proposed that this vessel, possibly commissioned by or for Augustus, wa…
Between Republic and Empire
The Cartoceto Bronzes
The "Cartoceto Bronzes," an important group of four over-life-size, gilded bronze figures (two equestrian male and two standing female statues), have been dated from the second half of the first century B. C. to the latter part of the first century A. C. Portrait comparisons indicate that past identifications of these figures as members of the Julian or Julio-Claudian family are incorrect and that a previously overlooked late Republican-early Aug…
Parian lychnites and the Prima Porta statue
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Conclusions
Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization
This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication of a cache of eight bronzes from east-central Gaul. The types of objects and accompanying inscriptions suggest that these bronzes originally came from a sanctuary of a god named Cobannus. The first part of the book describes, analyzes, and interprets the individual objects, which are divided between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Shelby White - Leon Levy Collection. The latter part of th…
Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service
From the literary, epigraphic and archaeological record, we know much about the institution of slavery in the Roman period, but far less about the way in which slaves were represented in art. This chapter concerns principally with images of slave-'boys' in the later Julio-Claudian and Flavian periods. Besides designating a male as opposed to a female, the Latin word for 'boy', puer, has essentially two meanings: a prepubertal free-born boy or a m…
A portrait of Caracalla from the mellerio collection and the iconography of Caracalla and Geta
Un portrait de Caracalla dans la Collection Mellerio et l’iconographie de Caracalla et Géta Une tête en marbre, achetée au début du XX e siècle par le joallier Mellerio, est restée à Paris, dans une autre collection. L’A. démontre que l’hésitation à y reconnaître l’un des fils de Septime Sévère vient du fait que les deux adolescents, d’âge très proche, sont difficiles à distinguer dans la deuxième série dite du « Successor Type II » de la typolog…
Burning Rome, Burning Christians
The “lost” Nollekens Relief of an imperial sacrifice from Domitian's Palace on the Palatine
Mainstream classical scholarship has long considered as lost a Roman “historical” relief, excavated in the earlier part of the 18th c. in the Palace of Domitian on the Palatine hill. Showing an emperor sacrificing, it is known as the Nollekens Relief after Joseph Nollekens, an accomplished British sculptor who came to possess it in the 18th c. Besides being a sculptor and painter, he was a sculptural restorer and dealer active between 1761 and 17…
A short note on the archaeometric study of two sculptures in the Gabinetto Segreto of Naples National Archeological Museum
The Bronze Statue of Germanicus from Ameria (Amelia)
Although discovered more than 50 years ago near Amelia (Italy), a bronze cuirassed statue of Germanicus has gained relatively little attention. Represented on its elaborate breastplate is the death of Trojan Troilus at the hands of Achilles. The author of the principal monograph on the statue proposes that it originally portrayed King Mithridates VI, who saw himself as a new Achilles in his war against Rome. According to this theory, the depictio…
Anna Marguerite McCann, 1933-2017
The Statue of Germanicus from Amelia
DIS MANIBVS GERMANICI IVLII CAESARIS (on the 2,000th anniversary of his death) This archaeological note presents the findings from a scientific analysis of the bronze of an over-life-sized cuirassed statue of Germanicus from Amelia (ancient Ameria). The examination was recently carried out in the Museo Archeologico di Amelia to determine both the nature of the statue's production and its relative dating. The 41 nondestructive X-ray fluorescence s…
Some New Observations on and Reconstruction of the Colossal Statue of Constantine in the Capitoline Museum in Rome
This article reconsiders some of the most important recent scholarship on the recut colossal acrolithic (marble and bronze) statue of Constantine in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Discussed in this article are the various past attempts to determine from which previous emperor or divinity the statue might have bene recut and reused in a new setting, as well as past reconstructions of the statue. To this discussion,…
Art (18 works) · History (15 works) · Art history (13 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (13 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (6 works) · Statue (6 works)