What is 'Jewish' about Jewish art? Art and identity on late ancient sarcophagi from Rome [PDF]
, 2017 A paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late ...
Sean Burrus
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Terracotta Figurines and the Acrolithic Statues of Demeter and Kore from Morgantina
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018 Archaic figurines of women holding a dove recovered from in and around the Thesmophorion of S. Francesco Bisconti at Morgantina (Sicily) can be associated with a fragmentary terracotta throne now in Vienna.
Laura Maniscalco
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Photographs of Sculpture: Greek Slave’s ‘complex polyphony’, 1847–77
19, 2016 This article explores some of the representations, iterations, and appearances of Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave in London in the decades after its first exhibition in 1845, years in which a variety of new ‘engines of the fine arts’ were fuelling a widening ...
Patrizia Di Bello
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La Jeune Grecque de David d’Angers ou le rêve brisé
Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2021 Little-known in France because of the secondary place of sculpture vis-à-vis painting in the cultural consciousness of the contemporary public concerning the nineteenth century, as well as because of the poor representation in the Louvre (as in most of ...
Philippe Durey
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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]
, 2000 Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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Knidos Teritoryumunda Bulunmuş Bir Aslan Heykeli: “Knidos Yaka Aslanı”
Arkhaia Anatolika, 2020 In 2017, a white marble statue of a lion was unearthed during the excavation of a garden wall in Yaka neighborhood, in Datça District of Muğla Province (in ancient Caria). It was added to the inventory of the Marmaris Museum.
Ertekin M. DOKSANALTI
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Towards a “Polychrome History” of Greek and Roman Sculpture [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2016 In the early twenty-first century, the polychromy of ancient sculpture has been presented at many exhibitions and discussed in a large number of specialized publications.
Bente Kiilerich
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Alexander Conze, “Greek Relief Sculpture”. Originally published as ‘Über das Relief bei den Griechen’, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 25. Mai, 1882, no. 26, pp. 1-15 (pp. 563-577). [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2012 On the basis of a corpus edition of Attic grave stelae, it becomes possible to make certain broad observations about the nature and development of Greek relief sculpture, a branch of the arts in which the Greeks are admitted to have excelled. Archaeology
Karl Johns (trans & ed.)
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
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