The Portraits of Nero
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4542822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulrich W Hiesinger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113-124 |
| Publication date | 1975-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/503891 |
| OpenAlex | W2315550989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 1 |
Close study of Nero's portraiture on coins and in sculptured replicas reveals the creation of five separate portrait types datable to the years A.D. 51, 54, 55, 59 and 64. The first three portrait types, which all bear the same coiffure pattern and to which a total of fifteen replicas are attributed, can be associated with the successive events of Nero's adoption in A.D. 50, his tenure as heir apparent from A.D. 51 to 54, and his accession in A.D. 54. Portrait Type III, the accession portrait, is the best defined and most widely represented type, used to portray the young emperor until A.D. 59. A hitherto unknown example of this type in Cagliari was subsequently altered to reflect the elaborated iconography of Nero's last years. The later portraits, Types IV and V, survive in only one sculptured replica each—well known portraits in the Terme and Worcester Museums. Both stylistically and typologically the established portrait series reveals a continuous development without any radical break. The earliest dated coin portraits of Type V and the physical evidence of the Worcester replica indicate Nero's last portrait type of A.D. 64 to have been originally unconnected with attributes traditionally interpreted as suggesting his divine, monarchical status. Moreover, the introduction of Nero's last two portrait types to coincide with his quinquennial and decennial years suggests that their publication followed a traditional pattern of imperial anniversary commemoration
Accession · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Biology · Emperor · Genealogy · Geography · Iconography · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Type (biology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Paleontology
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Nero’s Women
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The Neronian “Symptom”
“Ain’t Sayin’”
Lucan’s Civil War in Nero’s Rome
Nero’s Memory in Flavian Rome
Staging Nero
Resurgences of Nero in the Enlightenment
Nero the Performer
Nero
Nero’s Imperial Administration
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Nero’s Ancestry and the Construction of Imperial Ideology in the Early Empire. A Methodological Case Study
Sanctioning Memory
Finding Nero
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Obesity, Corpulence and Emaciation in Roman Art
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The Augustan Revolution Seen from the Mints of the Provinces
Cultural Choice and Political Identity in Honorific Portrait Statues in the Greek East in the Second Century A.D
Nero’s “Solar” Kingship and the Architecture of the Domus Aurea
| Citations per year | 1.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2019 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |