John Pollini
- Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Department of Art History
- Adjunct Professor of Classics
Expertise Summary
An expert on photonics, nanophotonics and photonic crystals
Expertise
- Greek and Roman art, architecture and archaeology
- Roman history and culture
- Christian destruction and desecration of images and temples of Classical Antiquity
- Ancient religions
- Ancient rhetoric and propaganda
Additional Information
- Author of The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (1987); Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue (1990); The Cobannus Hoard: Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization (2002); The Rhetoric and Poetry of Visual Imagery and the Creation of Dynastic Narratives in Augustan Art and Thought (in progress); Social, Sexual, and Cultic Intercourse: The Sacrificial Ministrant/Sex-Slave Type in Roman Art (in progress); The Image of Augustus: Art, Ideology and the Rhetoric of Leadership (in progress); and numerous publications on various aspects of Greek and Roman art and archaeology, especially portrait sculpture and sculptural reliefs
- President, Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California
- Member, Advisory Council of the American Academy of Rome
- Life Member, German Archaeological Institute
- Member, Advisory Committee for the Virtual Reality Project for Ancient Rome (“Rome Reborn”)