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Augustae, Matrons, Goddesses: Imperial Women in the Sacred Space
2013
The reception of the image of the Augustae in Greece allows us to evaluate the different ways of integrating the imperial power in the local culture, religion, and society, answering to “central” stimuli through an active reinterpretation of the official models in accordance with the local agencies. In analogy with the main trends recognized by D. Boschung among the emperors’ portraits, the statues of the Augustae could be linked to the Hellenistic tradition of timai for the basileis or benefactors; their likenesses could be updated according to the latest Roman fashions, provided with clear status symbols (stola, calcei..) and made recognizable by the official portrait types; finally, thei…
Il volto fotografato. Logiche di potere e strategie di resistenza
2019
Mugshots’ uses and practices—from Bertillon to Lombroso—show the photograph’s power: face and its photographic image are a form of control for protecting the establishment. However political value and subversive force of photography lies in the dialectic between known and unknown that the image of the photographed face produces. Photographic portrait produces new, previously unknown relationships if it isn’t only used for purposes of reproduction: so it is able to be in opposition to the established order and its imperatives that want to eliminate chaos and differences.