The 12 caesars take different forms. So we're not only thinking about busts and paintings, but also tapestries depicting the assassinationo caesar. Henry the eighth's prize possessions were a series of tapestries which ended in the assassination of the monarch. And one of the questions i ask is, how do we deal with that? Ne this is not a glorification of monarchy. A lot of these images are not glorification. They are questioning about the nature of power. I think this is genlyan gerom.
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.
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