I think i would recognize vitellius anywhere. He looks like a walrus, i've learnt for e i ge but him 50 pacesy. You can't see that he actually the emperor. But what's great about this is it shows the connection between this and modern film. When rigley scott was planning the gladiatorial scenes in gladiator for the moving gladiator, he goes back to jerome,. whos painting of the death of caesar that we saw, and weve just seen, his amphitheatrical painting with vitellii in the box.
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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