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Possession
A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, and forgery that lies at the heart of many private art collections and many of the world's most renowned museums. Enlivened by fascinating personalities and scandalous events, Possession shows how collecting antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way. Thompson's accounts of history's most infamous collectors--from the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who stole a life-sized nude Greek statue for his bedroom, to Queen Christina of Sweden, who habitually pilfered small antiquities from her fellow aristocrats, to Sir William Hamilton, who forced his mistress to enact poses from his collection of Greek vases--are as mesmerizing as they are revealing.
Antiquities
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Antiquities
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Bulletin
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Studi Etruschi 86-2023
Fondata nel 1927, «Studi Etruschi» è una pubblicazione annuale dell'Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici (Firenze). Studi Etruschi è la rivista peer-reviewed di etruscologia e studi italici più illustre e diffusa a livello internazionale. L'attenzione scientifica è rivolta a tutti i campi di ricerca e studio relativi all'Italia etrusca e preromana. La rivista comprende inoltre due rassegne epigrafiche (Rassegna di epigrafia etrusca REE e italica REI). Studi Etruschi raggiunge più di 25 paesi e circa 300 università, società scientifiche, dipartimenti di antichità e musei.
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and architecture lull us into thinking that the color world of the ancient Greeks and Romans was restrained and monochromatic, nothing could be further from the truth. Classical archaeologists are rapidly uncovering and restoring the vivid, polychrome nature of the ancient built environment. At the same time, new understandings of ancient color cognition and language have unlocked insights into the ways – often unfamiliar and strange to us – that ancient peoples thought and spoke about color. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also...
Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens
Matheson provides the first comprehensive chronology for Polygnotos's own works, and then analyzes the distinctive, evolving Polygnotan style first isolated by Sir John Beazley, comparing this style to that of contemporary Athenian workshops and demonstrating its seminal influence on the later vase painting of southern Italy.
American Indian Art
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