Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity

Seminar participants (from left Birte Poulsen, Clara Bencivenga Trillmilch, Mette Moltesen, Stine Birk Toft, Niels Hannestad, Walter Trillmilch, Lea Stirling) in front of the Agrippina portrait.

In December, members of the Art and Social Identities in Late Antiquity programme travelled to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek to attend a seminar, co-organized with the Glyptotek’s Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Mette Moltesen.

Visiting Professor Lea Stirling presented her research on a new portrait of Livia from El Djem in Tunisia. Mette Moltesen discussed the reworkings of a greywacke portrait of Agrippina in the collections of the Glyptotek. It fits a statue of Agrippina in the same statue that is now on view at the Centrale Montemartini in Rome. Both presentations were followed by interesting discussions of the restoration and re-use of portraits in both Imperial and Late Antique times.