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In this book, against a background of today's 'sculpture wars', Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia, portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the 'Twelve Caesars', from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwelve Caesars\u003c\/em\u003e asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. 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