Addendum to “The Book Transformed”: The Physical History of the Ara Pacis Augustae

Abstract

In March 2013, an article titled “The Book Transformed,” written by Charles Rhyne, was published in Visual Resources within the special issue “Digital Art History.” Rhyne's far-reaching discussion of the Ara Pacis Augustae, 13–9 BCE, a Roman monument with a complex modern history, was to be his final publication: he passed away one month after the article's appearance. I was Rhyne's research assistant, and thus am in a unique position to comment on his website devoted to the Ara Pacis (http://cdm.reed.edu/ara-pacis/). I have also taken this opportunity to augment his article with an outline of the monument's history on the basis of its physical evidence and to assess his strategy for using an online publication to document the Ara Pacis.