What Did the Romans Do With Sculpture?

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Sculptures were seen as works in progress by the romans. Sculptors have a fixed view of sculptors, they don't move and therefore we have a really big problem about what to do with them. The romans are rather more imaginative than we are. You can see er what clearly was a statue of nero, which has been neatly, neatly retoed to be a statue of vespea.

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Mary Beard, Britain’s best known classicist, came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the ideas in her new book Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern. To follow along with the images referenced in the podcast visit: https://intelligencesquared.com/slides/

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