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The Roman Emperor Seen from the Provinces
Imaging Roman Power in the Cities of the Empire from Augustus to the Tetrarchs (31 BC-AD 297)

Scientific events


Project conferences 



Conference Programme


Tuesday, 15 April: Palazzo Giuliari, Sala Barbieri


10:00 - Paolo De Paolis (Director of the Department of Cultures and Civilisations)

Greetings

10:15 - Dario Calomino

'The ERC RESP Project 2021-2026'

10:30 - Francesca Lam-March and Will Wootton

'Producing provincial portraits in the Roman West: experiments in the (re-)making of Augustan coinage and sculpture'

11:10 - Julia Lenaghan and Daniele Bursich

'Making a Julio-Claudian princess: using 3D scanning and traditional typology'

11:50 - Giorgia Cafici and Daniele Bursich

'Nero and Domitian as Pharaohs? Recovering lost identities through a multidisciplinary approach'

12:30 - Lunch Break

14:00 - Francesca Bologna and Raffaella Bucolo

'Recarving Emperors across time and space'

14:40 - Julia Lenaghan and Lee Ann Riccardi

'Varying the model. Examples of Hadrian or Zeitgesicht?'

15:20 - Hristina Ivanova and Dario Calomino

'The accession portrait type of Septimius Severus in Asia Minor, between coinage and sculpture'

16:00 - Coffee Break

16:30 - Nisan Lordoğlu and Francesca Bologna

'Marble sculpture vs. coins in the provincial capital of Asia: a case study of Geta'

17:10 - Giacomo Marchioro and Federico Masi

'From portrait in the round to profile and vice-versa: 3D-based approaches to studying how models were transferred from one medium to another'

18:00 - Closing Round Table
with Barbara Borg, Andrew Burnett, Matteo Cadario, Cécile Evers, Jane Fejfer, Ralf von den Hoff, Bernhard Woytek


 

Conference papers and lectures

 


Conference Programme

 

Thursday, 7 September: Polo Zanotto, Room T1

17:30 - Registration and greetings

Patrizia Basso (Verona University, Department of Cultures and Civilisations)

Institutional introduction

Dario Calomino (Verona University)

The RESP Project

18:00 - Opening Lecture

Andrew Burnett (British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals)

The imperial image on coinage and sculpture: what is the relationship?

 

SOCIAL DINNER


 

 

Friday, 8 September: Polo Santa Marta, Room SMT 2

Session 1. The genesis and spread of imperial portraits in Rome and the provinces

Chair: Rubina Raja (Aarhus University)

 

9:00 - Dietrich Boschung (Köln University)

The Image of the Emperor in the provinces: transfer and adaptation

9:30 - Gianfranco Adornato and Federico Figura (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Beyond the typology? Chrono-geography and transmediality in the study of Roman portrait

10:00 - Julia Lenaghan (Verona University)

Three portraits of Julio-Claudian family memebers at Aphrodisias c. AD 25: observations on local sculptors and portrait types

COFFEE BREAK


 

11:00 - Bernhard Woytek (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Trajan's portrait on coins: the mint of Rome and a few case studies in provincial series

11:30 - Fae Amiro (Western Ontario University)

Understanding quantity variations in provincial minting for imperial women

12:00 - Marco Galli (Rome University La Sapienza)

Lucius Verus Parthicus Maximus and the aftermaths of the Eastern campaigns

12:30 – End of session’s discussion

 

LUNCH BREAK


 

 

Session 2. Imaging the Emperor in full-figure in Rome and the Provinces

Chair: Julia Lenaghan (Verona University)

 

15:00 - Matteo Cadario (Udine University)

The dissemination of different types of cuirassed statues and busts between Rome and the provinces in imperial age

15:30 - Luigi Sperti (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)

The image of the princeps in Julio-Claudian cult groups in Asia Minor

16:00 - Chris Howgego (Ashmolean Museum Oxford)

Alexandria and Rome: the special relationship

16:30 - Tuna Sare (Canakkale University)

The display of imperial power in Roman Nicomedia

COFFEE BREAK


 

 

Session 3. The imperial image: impact and reception from Late Antiquity to Renaissance

Chair: Raffaella Bucolo (Verona University)

 

17:30 – Michele Asolati (Padua University)

Le effigi di Costantino I: ricezione ed emulazione di modelli monetari ellenistici e primo-imperiali

18:00 - Beatrice Cacciotti (Rome University Tor Vergata)

Il ritratto imperiale nella documentazione antiquaria rinascimentale, tra interpretazioni e invenzioni

18:30 - Anna Maria Riccomini and Federico Barello

(Pavia University and Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte)

L'illusione del tutto tondo. La serie dei ritratti imperiali di Jacopo Strada

19:00 – End of session’s discussion

 

SOCIAL DINNER


 

 

Saturday, 9 September: Polo Zanotto, Room T1

Session 4. Digital technology in traditional portrait studies

Chair: Dario Calomino (Verona University)

 

9:00 – Giuseppe Salemi, Emanuela Faresin and Alessandra Menegazzi (Padua University)

Sensors, scanners and post-processing techniques for digital portrait studies

9:30 - Martin Langner (Göttingen University)

Roman portraits under the scanner

10:00 – Sam Heijnen (Radboud University)

Applying facial recognition to Roman imperial portraiture: new opportunities and challenges

10:30 - Karsten Tolle and Sebastian Gampe (Frankfurt University)

AI based methods to identify Roman empresses and emperors on coins

COFFEE BREAK


 

Session 5. Concluding remarks

11:30 - Ralf von den Hoff (Freiburg University)

Portraits of the Roman Emperor in the provinces: state of research, approaches...and some reminders

12:15 - Dario Calomino (Verona University)

Closing

 

LUNCH BREAK


 

 

VISIT TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM