The Sculpture of Vitellius, by Thomas Cuche

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Vitellius was the classic tourist image of roman sculpture that the city of venice had. If you go up close and you look at him, he really is the same vitellius from venice again. You could not have been in venice and not nonerao,. That's amazing to to see it through your eyes like that.

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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