New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Plates and Figures -- Plates -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Introduction with Remarks on the Methodological Implications of the Digital Restoration of the Richmond Caligula -- Chapter 3 The Togatus Statue of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: an Archaeological Description -- Chapter 4 Discovery and Modern History of the Richmond Caligula -- Chapter 5 Caligula: Notes and a Hypothesis about the Ancient Context -- Chapter 6 Reflections on the Typology and Context of the Richmond Caligula -- Chapter 7 Beyond Damnatio Memoriae: Memory Sanctions, Caligula's Portraits and the Richmond Togatus -- Chapter 8 The Image of Caligula: Myth and Reality -- Chapter 9 On the Reputation of Little-Boots -- Chapter 10 Caligula and the Jews: Some Historiographic Reflections Occasioned by Gaius in Polychrome -- Chapter 11 Caligula Now: Displaying Caligula to a 21st-Century Audience -- Epilogue VMFA's New Display of Caligula -- Appendix A Technical Notes on the Conservation Treatment of the VMFA's Marble Sculpture of Caligula -- Appendix B Letter to Amy Byrne on the Isotopic Analysis of the Marble of the Head and Torso of the Richmond Caligula (April 29, 2013) -- Appendix C Publication History -- General Index.

The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts address art historical, historical, and cultural issues raised by one of only two surviving statues of the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 C.E.).

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