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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Roman art"”.
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Origins of Roman art
<p>My introductory comments on the origins of Roman art deal briefly with the major cultural developments by which Roman art came into being. Primarily, how Etruscan traditions were the most dominant molding forces of Roman art, yet, the Etruscans were deeply indebted to the Greeks for initial …
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Natus Diformis: Hermaphrodites in Greek and Roman Art
<p>Hermaphroditos, the personage in Greek and Roman myth and iconography possessing both male and female sexual features, first appears in Greek literary and epigraphical sources in the fourth century B.C., although a pedigree as the offspring of Hermes is not provided before the mid-first century …
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The door motif in Roman art: 200 BCE – 320 CE
… of all known examples of the door motif in Roman Italy, from its initial appearance in the second century BCE, to its disappearance in the early fourth century CE. My research expands the corpus from 91 examples to 242 examples. The door motif can be defined as the fundamental rather than …
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The Bentvueghels: Networking and Agency in the Seicento Roman Art Market
… evaluates the position of Netherlandish migrant artists in the dynamic cultural environment of seventeenth-century Rome through an examination of the role of the Bentvueghels (“birds of a feather”) as a social and economic nexus for the city’s foreign community. One of the most distinctive …
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Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Roman Art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain
… of femininities and masculinities in Roman art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain. The study focuses on the visual presentation of gender for specific deities, personifications and figural images in funerary art; this includes concepts of sexuality that in some cases …
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Forms of Spectrality in Ancient Rome
… dissertation explores what images of ghosts in Roman art can reveal about the very limits of representation and the act of seeing itself. My approach differs from that of many previous studies on the supernatural, therefore, in that it ultimately has little to do with the question of whether or …
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Wrestling’s Grip on the Past: A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Greek Wrestling
… BC. Wrestling continued to appear in Greek and Roman art and literature all the way until the end of antiquity, leaving behind a large cultural legacy over a period of a thousand years. This long history reflects a level of importance and prestige associated with the sport that is deserving of …
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Jan Van Scorel, His Style and Its Historical Context
… circles</p> <p>and that Jan van Scorel, in particular, found favorable contact</p> <p>with the aristocracy throughout his career, and 2) that</p> <p>Scorel' s vision, perhaps given additional direction by the</p> <p>patronage of the Dutch court circle in the Vatican, was influenced</p> <p>by …
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José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965-1985
… reputation in the mid-1980s with his Museum of Roman Art in MWrida (1980-86) and into the highest ranks of academe when he assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1985-1990). Moneo's work falls into three distinct …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
… physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and Roman art. …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
… ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to do with the …
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Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
… Landscape of Isis and Sarapis Cults in Roman Greece,” asks questions of cross-cultural exchange and viewership of sculptural assemblages set up in sanctuaries to the Egyptian gods. Focusing on cognitive dissonance, cultural imagining, and manipulations of time and space, I theorize …
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The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
… the representation of the female body in Roman visual culture, exploring a range of images from mainland Italy that date between the late 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD, from three specific contexts of display: the public, domestic, and funerary. It seeks to understand how the two …
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Curating history: Roman approaches to the material past, c. 100 BC - AD 200
This thesis explores how the Romans constructed their past and what it looked like by using its material remains in the period from the first century BC to the second century AD. Using a combination of texts, objects, and images, I explore themes relevant to the modern fields of heritage studies …