Project conferences
Conference programme
Thursday, 7 September: Polo Zanotto, Room T1
17:30 – Registration and greetings
Patrizia Basso (Verona University, Department of Cultures and Civilisations)
Institutional introduction
Dario Calomino (Verona University)
The RESP Project
18:00 – Opening Lecture
Andrew Burnett (British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals)
The imperial image on coinage and sculpture: what is the relationship?
SOCIAL DINNER
Friday, 8 September: Polo Santa Marta, Room SMT 2
Session 1. The genesis and spread of imperial portraits in Rome and the provinces
Chair: Rubina Raja (Aarhus University)
9:00 – Dietrich Boschung (Köln University)
The Image of the Emperor in the provinces: transfer and adaptation
9:30 – Gianfranco Adornato and Federico Figura (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Beyond the typology? Chrono-geography and transmediality in the study of Roman portrait
10:00 – Julia Lenaghan (Verona University)
Three portraits of Julio-Claudian family memebers at Aphrodisias c. AD 25: observations on local sculptors and portrait types
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – Bernhard Woytek (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Trajan’s portrait on coins: the mint of Rome and a few case studies in provincial series
11:30 – Fae Amiro (Western Ontario University)
Understanding quantity variations in provincial minting for imperial women
12:00 – Marco Galli (Rome University La Sapienza)
Lucius Verus Parthicus Maximus and the aftermaths of the Eastern campaigns
12:30 – End of session’s discussion
LUNCH BREAK
Session 2. Imaging the Emperor in full-figure in Rome and the Provinces
Chair: Julia Lenaghan (Verona University)
15:00 – Matteo Cadario (Udine University)
The dissemination of different types of cuirassed statues and busts between Rome and the provinces in imperial age
15:30 – Luigi Sperti (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
The image of the princeps in Julio-Claudian cult groups in Asia Minor
16:00 – Chris Howgego (Ashmolean Museum Oxford)
Alexandria and Rome: the special relationship
16:30 – Tuna Sare (Canakkale University)
The display of imperial power in Roman Nicomedia
COFFEE BREAK
Session 3. The imperial image: impact and reception from Late Antiquity to Renaissance
Chair: Raffaella Bucolo (Verona University)
17:30 – Michele Asolati (Padua University)
Le effigi di Costantino I: ricezione ed emulazione di modelli monetari ellenistici e primo-imperiali
18:00 – Beatrice Cacciotti (Rome University Tor Vergata)
Il ritratto imperiale nella documentazione antiquaria rinascimentale, tra interpretazioni e invenzioni
18:30 – Anna Maria Riccomini and Federico Barello
(Pavia University and Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte)
L’illusione del tutto tondo. La serie dei ritratti imperiali di Jacopo Strada
19:00 – End of session’s discussion
SOCIAL DINNER
Saturday, 9 September: Polo Zanotto, Room T1
Session 4. Digital technology in traditional portrait studies
Chair: Dario Calomino (Verona University)
9:00 – Giuseppe Salemi, Emanuela Faresin and Alessandra Menegazzi (Padua University)
Sensors, scanners and post-processing techniques for digital portrait studies
9:30 – Martin Langner (Göttingen University)
Roman portraits under the scanner
10:00 – Sam Heijnen (Radboud University)
Applying facial recognition to Roman imperial portraiture: new opportunities and challenges
10:30 – Karsten Tolle and Sebastian Gampe (Frankfurt University)
AI based methods to identify Roman empresses and emperors on coins
COFFEE BREAK
Session 5. Concluding remarks
11:30 – Ralf von den Hoff (Freiburg University)
Portraits of the Roman Emperor in the provinces: state of research, approaches…and some reminders
12:15 – Dario Calomino (Verona University)
Closing
LUNCH BREAK
VISIT TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM