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Eric R. VarnerAssociate Professor

Education

  • Ph.D., Yale University, 1993

Research Interests

Roman portrait sculpture; Imperial iconography; Roman women; monuments and topography of ancient Rome.

Selected Publications

Books

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Golden Excess: Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome (Leiden: Brill, 2025)

Mutilation, Varner

Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture (Leiden: Brill, 2004)

From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture by Eric R. Varner

From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2000)

Articles

Articles on Roman portraiture, iconography of Roman empresses, and portraiture and religion in Roman North Africa

Selected Seminars

Roman portraiture; imperial iconography; images of women in Roman art