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Download (.pdf) Il linguaggio dei corpi nel ritratto romano
in Ritratti le tante facce del potere, a cura di E. La Rocca, C. Parisi Presicce, con A. Lo Monaco, (catalogo della mostra Roma), Roma, 2011, pp. 209-221.
Paper on the language of the bodies in the Roman Portrait, with a focus on the importance of the location in the choice of the statuary type. About cuirassed, togate and nude heroic statues, quotation of statues in literary sources, Noni Balbi.
Nerone e il “potere delle immagini”
in Nerone, a cura di M.A. Tomei e R. Rea (catalogo della mostra Roma) Milano, Electa, 2011, pp. 176-189.
Paper on the image and the propaganda of the Emperor Nero. The paper examines Nero's portrait, his assimilation to Apollo and Sol/Helios and the choice of the cuirassed statue in his propaganda.
Le basiliche civili. Da luogo della memoria gentilizia a scenario della storia di Roma e del potere imperiale
in Memorie di Roma. Gli Aemilii e la basilica del foro, a cura di M.A. Tomei (guida mostra Roma) Milano, Electa, 2010, pp. 58-107.
The paper examines the use of the civic Basilica as Bildraum and space for public celebration from Republic to Empire. In a civic Roman Basilica you can find: the display of gentilitial memory (like for the Aemilii in the Basilica Aemilia), the commemoration of the city's past (friezes in Ostia, Rome and Aphrodisia) and the portrait galleries of the imperial family.
About display of statues, Basilica, Roman Portraits, domi nobiles.
Quando l’habitus faceva il romano (o il greco). Identità e costume nelle statue iconiche tra II e I sec. a.C.
in I giorni di Roma. L’età della conquista, a cura di E. La Rocca, C. Parisi Presicce con A. Lo Monaco (catalogo mostra Roma), Milano, 2010, pp. 115-124.
Paper about the choice of the costume as a sign of ethnicity in the Roman Portrait in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic. About Greek and Roman costume in Roman Portrait, nude heroic, cuirassed and togate statues, pallium fimbriatum (fringed cloak) in roman Portraits.
“…Ad arricchire la Lombardia con uno de’ più preziosi avanzi dell’antichità”: il Tiberio colossale del Castellazzo degli Arconati
in “Archivio Storico Lombardo”, CXXXIII, 2007, pp. 11-50.
Paper on a colossal nude portrait of Tiberius. This statue was found in Rome in 1618/9, near Santa Maria della Vittoria (in the same place were unearthed the Ermafrodito Borghese and the Marsia Borghese). In 1627 Galeazzo Arconati brought the statue to his villa in Bollate (Milano), where the colossus was identified by him with a portrait of Pompey the Great. About Roman portrait, Tiberius, colossal statues and nude heroic portrait, Villa Arconati.
L’immagine di una vedette del pantomimo: l’altare funebre di Teocritus Pylades (CIL 5889) tra Lodi e Milano
in “Stratagemmi. Prospettive Teatrali”, 9, 2009, pp. 11-62.
Paper on a little funerial altar from Laus Pompeia (now in the Ambrosiana Library), representing the pantomime Teocritus Pylades performing in two different costumes. The paper examines the history of the image of the pantomime, its inspiration from the iconographic tradition of the actor and the close relationship between iconographic and danced schemata. The altar offers an important contribution to understand the visual aspects of the pantomime's performance. About also collecting of Antiquities in modern Lombardia (Talenti collection).
Salmacide ed Ermafrodito tra Alicarnasso e Roma
in Ninfe nel mito e nella città dalla Grecia a Roma, a cura di F. Giacobello e P. Schirripa, Parabordi 71, Milano, Viennepierre edizioni, 2009, pp. 115-131.
Paper on Hermaphrodite image and cult in Halicarnassus and in the Roman World, with a focus on the relationship between the literary tradition about him and Salmakis and the iconographic tradition, in which Hermaphrodite was alone.
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Le statue di Cesare a Roma tra il 46 e il 44 a.C. La celebrazione della vittoria e il confronto con Alessandro e Romolo
in “ACME Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano”, LIX, Fasc. III, Settembre-Dicembre, 2006, pp. 25-70.
Paper on Caesar's statues erected in Rome from 46 to 44 BC. Starting from the quotations of the Caesar's statues in the ancient Literary Sources, the paper examines Caesar's propaganda, the celebration of his victories and the building of an increasingly close link to Romulus. The founder of Rome offered to Caesar an useful model for his divine assimilation, but he was also used against the dictator by his opponents.
«Signum Periturae Troiae». Gli Altri Laocoonti Nella Pittura Romana
in Il Laocoonte dei Musei Vaticani 500 anni dalla scoperta, a cura di G. Bejor, Quaderni di Acme, 93, Milano, Cisalpino, 2007, pp. 45-103.
Paper on the image of Laocoon in the Roman painting from Pompei to the Late Antiquity. The essay examines also the relationship between iconographic and literary tradition starting from the Laocoon's death. About Troyan cycle, Casa del Laocoonte, Casa del Menandro, Laocoon, Vergilius Vaticanus.
Galeazzo Arconati, un collezionista di antichità nella Milano di Federico Borromeo
in “Studia Borromaica” [L’architettura milanese e Federico Borromeo. Dall’investitura arcivescovile all’apertura della Biblioteca Ambrosiana (1595-1609), a cura di F. Repishti e A. Rovetta], XXII, 2008, pp. 319-364.
Paper on Galeazzo Arconati as collector of Antiquities. The paper examines the masterpieces of his collection displayed in Villa Arconati: the colossal Tiberius wrongly identified with Pompey the Great and the casts of Trajan's column made by Primaticcio. Then the paper comments the Galeazzo's interest for the great military ancient (Pompey and Trajan) and modern (Gaston de Foix) commanders. About Roman portrait, Tiberius, Trajan column, Primatice, Federico Borromeo, Ambrosiana.
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Grifomachie e propaganda imperiale nelle statue loricate
in Iconografia 2005 Immagini e immaginari dall’antichità classica al mondo moderno (Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Venezia, 26-28 gennaio 2005), Antenor quaderni, 5, Roma, 2006, pp. 477-481.
Paper on the decorative programs on the breastplates of the Roman cuirassed statues. The focus is on the fight between Gryphons and Arimaspians.
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Studium bellicae gloriae: l’immagine militare tardorepubblicana ad Aquileia
in G. Cuscito, M. Verzár Bass (a cura di), Aquileia dalle origini alla costituzione del ducato longobardo. La cultura artistica ad Aquileia in età romana (II a.C. – III d.C.) (Atti della Settimana di Studi Aquileiesi, Aquileia 6-8 maggio 2004), AAAd, 61, Trieste, 2005, pp. 611-628.
Paper on the building of the military image in the Roman Republican Portrait, starting from two statues discovered in Aquileia. Also about Navarca of Aquileia, pallium fimbriatum (fringed mantle), rostrum.
Un intellettuale a teatro. Una statua togata lunense nel gesto della lettura interrotta
in “Quaderni del Centro Studi Lunensi”, n.s. 7, 2001, pp. 83-114.
Paper on a togate statue unearthed in the theater/odeum of Luna. The statue is represented in the act of stopping the reading of a volumen. This gesture was used to show the man portrayed as an intellectual. There is also a connection with the activity of L. Titinius Glaucus Lucretianus, one of the most important men in claudian and neronian Luna (Luni).
Ipotesi sulla circolazione dell’immagine loricata in età imperiale. I torsi giulio-claudi di Susa
in La scultura romana dell'Italia settentrionale. Quarant'anni dopo la mostra di Bologna (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi. Pavia, 22-23 settembre 2005), a cura di S. Maggi e F. Slavazzi, Flos Italiae, 8, Firenze, All’Insegna del Giglio, 2008, pp. 281-292.
Paper on the cuirassed statues spread in Northern Italy, starting from two julio-claudian statues discovered in Susa (Segusium). Also on the decorative programs of the two breastplates, with a scene of submission of the Arimaspians to the Gryphons and a worship scene of the Palladium.
‘Primordia urbis Romae’ in Piemonte. Lupa Romana e fuga di Enea nei monumenti funerari
in G. Sena Chiesa (a cura di), Il modello romano in Cisalpina. Problemi di tecnologia, artigianato e arte, Flos Italiae. Documenti di archeologia della Cisalpina Romana, 1, All’Insegna del Giglio, Firenze, 2001, pp. 151-172.
Paper on the Roman myth iconographical tradition in the sculpture of Northern Italy. In Piemonte there are many funerary reliefs with Lupa Romana (Lupa with the twins) and a very interesting altar in Acqui (Petronia Grata's altar) with the Aeneas' flight inserted into a narrative cycle of Trojan argument. This cycle is linked also to the Argonauts expedition.
I Claudi Marcelli: strategie di propaganda in monumenti onorari e dediche votive tra III e I sec. a.C.
in “Ostraka. Rivista di antichità”, XIV, 2, Luglio-Dicembre, 2005, pp. 147-177.
Paper on the Claudi Marcelli's propaganda in the Roman Republic starting from the quotations of statues in the literary sources. About the gentilitial memory in Rome, the display of greek art in public spaces, M. Claudius Marcellus, Syracuse, Luni, war booty.
Il “Navarca” di Capua
in “ACME Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano”, LIII, Fasc. III, Settembre-Dicembre, 2000, pp. 211-225.
Paper on a statue of a Roman admiral (navarchus) now in Museo Provinciale Campano in Capua. The statue, erected in augustan age, is nude, wears a fringed cloak and put its left foot on a rostrum.
