Niels Hannestad
Niels Hannestad is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Aarhus. His areas of research include Roman Imperial art, propaganda, portraits and, currently, the classical tradition in Late Antique sculpture. His University of Aarhus faculty page can be found here.
Selected publications
Monographs:
1994. Tradition in Late Antique Sculpture. Conservation – Modernization – Production. Aarhus University Press. 166 pp.
1986. Roman Art and Imperial Policy. Aarhus University Press. 485 pp. (paperback edition 1988, Romanian edition 1989).
1976. Romersk kunst som propaganda. Copenhagen. 356 pp.
Articles:
2003. “Das Ende der antiken Idealstatue. Heidnische Skulptur in christlichen Häusern?”, Antike Welt 33.6: 635-49.
2002. “The Ruler Image of the Fourth Century: Innovation or Tradition”, Imperial Art as Christian Art – Christian Art as Imperial Art (ActaAArtHist XI – Bari): 93-107.
2002. “My Best ideas – I Got them from Others”, Ancient Histroy Matters. Studies Presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard (AnalRomana Suppl. XXX – Rome): 267-76.
2001. “Castration in the Baths”, Macellum. Festschrift Robert Fleischer. (Mainz): 67-77.
2001. “Introduction” to Late Antiquity. Art in Context (Acta Hyperborea 8, 2001) : 9-19.
2001. “The Young Hadrian”, Rome et ses provinces. Genèse & diffusion d’une image du pouvoir. Hommage à J. Ch. Balty. (Bruxelles): 141-50.
2000. “Late Antique reworking of the Ara Pacis”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 13: 311-318.
1999. “The accesibility of information in Classical archaeology. Reflections in an age of information technology”, XVth Intern. Congress of Classical Archaeology. Amsterdam July 1998. (Amsterdam 1999): 189-94.
1998. “Sculptural Genres in Late Antiquity”, Griechenland in der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit. Kolloquium Bern juni 1998 (HASB 4. Beiheft, Bern 2001) : 137-45.
1998. “The Daidalos Group in Amman, or transporting marble sculpture in Late Antiquity”, The 7th Intern. Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. Copenhagen June 1998 (SHAJ 7, Amman 2001): 513-20.
1994. “How did rising Christianity cope with pagan sculpture?”, East and West: Modes of Communication. Proceeding of the First Plenary Conference at Merida 1994 (Programme on the Transformation of the Roman World. Leiden 1999: 173-203.
1993. “Hedenskab – kristendom. Dualismen i senantikkens kunst”, Ordet, kirken og kulturen (Aarhus 1993) : 17-27.
1993. “Imitatio Alexandri in Roman Art”, Alexander the Great. Reality and Myth. Rome.
1989. “The deified Julius or Caesar renovated”, III Intern. Conference on the Roman Portrait (Prague 1989)(Mainz 1997): 20-23.
1988. “The so-called daughter of Marcus Aurelius or some remarks on Late Roman sculpture”, Studies in Ancient History and Numismatics dedicated to Rudi Thomsen. Aarhus 1988: 195-203.
1988. “The classical tradition in Late Roman sculpture” (abstract) XIII Intern. Kongress für klassische Archäologie. Berlin 1988 (1990): 516f.
1984. “Nero, or the Potentialities of the Emperor”, Il Conferenza internazionale sul ritratto romano. Rome 1984 (1988): 325-329.
1982. “Über das Grabmal des Antinoos. Topographische und thematische Studien im Canopus-Gebiet der Villa Adriana”, Analecta Romana XI: 69-108.
1982. “Thorvaldsen’s small silver head – A ruined Tondo portrait”, Meddelelser fra Thorvaldsens Museum 1982: 27-65.
1979. “Rome – Ideology and Art. Some distinctive Features”, Mesopotamia 7 (Power and Propaganda, ed. M. Trolle Larsen) : 361-390.
1977. “The Liberalitas Panel of Marcus Aurelius once again – is Herodes Atticus represented on it?”,Analecta Romana VIII: 79-88.
1974. “The portraits of Aelius Caesar”, Analecta Romana VII : 67-100.
Articles (with co-authors) on an excavation and survey project at Hagios Kononas,
Cyprus (1991).Vol. I of the publication Ancient Akamas. Settlement and Environment.
Aarhus 1995.
Articles on late Roman sculpture and ‘craftsmen and society’ for the MacMillan Dictionary of Art.
Reviews in Journal of Roman Studies, Klio, Gnomon, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, American Journal of Archaeology, Göttingsche gelehrte Anzeigen.