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Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World
This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800. Taking a trans-cultural approach, the book studies the production of polychrome sculptures, panels, and altarpieces, as well as colored terracotta. The book includes chapters on treatises and contracts that reveal specific use of pigments, distribution of workshops, collaborations between specialized artists, and artistic programs centered on the use of color as an agent. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art conservation, early modern history, sculpture, colonialism, material culture, and European studies.
A Different God?
Within modern frameworks of knowledge and representation, Dionysos often appears to be atypical for ancient culture, an exception within the context of ancient polytheism, or even an instance of a difference that anticipates modernism. How can recent research contribute to a more precise understanding of the diverse transformations of the ancient god, from Greek antiquity to the Roman Empire? In this volume, which is the result of an international conference held in March 2009 at the Pergamon Museum Berlin, scholars from all branches of classical studies, including history of scholarship, consider this question. Consequently, this leads to a new look on vase paintings, sanctuaries, rituals and religious-political institutions like theatre, and includes new readings of the texts of ancient poets, historians and philosophers, as well as of papyri and inscriptions. It is the diversity of sources or methods and the challenge of former views that is the strength of this volume, providing a comprehensive, innovative and richly faceted account of the “different” god in an unprecedented way.
Out of Bounds
Where are the limits of medieval art as a field of study? What happens when conventionally trained art historians disregard the chronological, geographical, or cultural parameters that both direct and protect their scholarship? Beginning with Thelma K. Thomas and Alicia Walker’s acute assessment of the need for a “medieval art history for now,” the essays in Out of Bounds ask what happens when the study of medieval art disregards boundaries that it once obeyed. The volume focuses on questions surrounding the production of knowledge and on how scholarly investigation beyond the conventional thematic boundaries of medieval art history is changing, demonstrating how the field can address ...
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...
The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy
This book is the first comprehensive study of images of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Péter Bokody examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing produced in kingdoms (Sicily and Naples) and city-republics (Florence, Siena, Lucca, Bologna and Padua). Whilst misogynistic endorsement characterized many of these visual discourses, some urban communities condemned rape in their propaganda against tyranny. Such representations of rape often link gender and aggression to war, abduction, sodomy, prostitution, pregnancy, and suicide. Bokody also traces how the new naturalism in painting, introduced by Giotto, increased verisimilitude, but also fostered imagery that coupled eroticism and violation. Exploring images and texts that have long been overlooked, Bokody's study provides new insights at the intersection of gender, policy, and visual culture, with evident relevance to our contemporary condition.
Von wirtschaftlicher Macht und militärischer Stärke. Beiträge zur archäologischen Geschlechterforschung
Die wirtschaftlichen und militärischen Rollen von Frauen in Antike und Prähistorie sind vielfältig: Das Spektrum reicht von neolithischen Bäuerinnen bis zu hellenistischen Königinnen, von Gastwirtinnen aus Pompeji bis zu Jägerinnen aus Australien, von antiken Feldherrinnen bis zu einheimischen Frauen, die römische Soldaten geheiratet haben. In diesem Band der Reihe Frauen – Forschung – Archäologie geht es um zwei Themen, die auf den ersten Blick nicht viel miteinander zu tun haben. Doch ohne wirtschaftliche Macht auch keine militärische Stärke. Von wirtschaftlicher Macht und militärischer Stärke. Beiträge zur archäologischen Geschlechterforschung ist aus den Vorträgen der 4. Sitzung der AG Geschlechterforschung hervorgegangen, die auf der Tagung des Nordwestdeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung e.V. in Detmold 2009 stattfand. Mit Beiträgen von Jochen Brandt, Peter Emberger, Dorit Engster, Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, Sibylle Kästner, Tim Kerig, Anna Kieburg, Sabine Müller und Yvonne Schmuhl.
Auf den Spuren alter Kulturen - Band IV
Entstehung und Ausbreitung der menschlichen Zivilisation sowie Entwicklung von Kunst, Kultur, Wissenschaft und Technik alter Völker und Kulturen stehen seit 1973 im Mittelpunkt der Vereinstätigkeit des Freundeskreises Alte Kulturen Freiberg. Im Oktober 2023 begeht der Freundeskreis Alte Kulturen sein 50-jähriges Bestehen. Aus diesem Anlass erscheint der vierte Band der Vereinschronik. In bislang über 550 Veranstaltungen "führte" der Verein seine Mitglieder und Gäste zu den Schauplätzen alter Kulturen in über 80 Ländern auf allen Kontinenten und ließ so Geschichte lebendig werden. Namhafte Referenten haben diesen Weg begleitet. Vorliegender Band knüpft unmittelbar an die bisher erschienenen Bände an und widerspiegelt im Teil I insbesondere die Vereinstätigkeit von 2019 bis 2023. Im Teil II führen Referenten und Vereinsmitglieder in ihren Beiträgen erneut weltweit zu den Schauplätzen alter Kulturen und spannen so zeitlich und geographisch einen weiten Bogen. Insoweit richtet sich auch dieser Band erneut an alle archäologisch und geschichtlich Interessierte und nicht nur an die Mitglieder und Referenten des Freundeskreises Alte Kulturen.
Keraunia
Der vorliegende Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über neue archäologische Forschungen zum antiken Kultgeschehen. Der Band vereint unpubliziertes oder von der Wissenschaft bislang vernachlässigtes Material, stellt aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse vor und eröffnet den Blick auf weiterführende Fragestellungen. Verfasser der einzelnen Beiträge sind junge Nachwuchsforscher, aber auch renommierte Wissenschaftler mit Spezialisierung auf diesen Themenkomplex. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit widmen sie der topographischen Situation der Heiligtümer als Zentren kultischen Geschehens und den verschiedenartigen Gaben an die Götter, die an den sakralen Orten abgelegt oder in ihnen aufgestellt wurden. Mit Hi...
Zacheus Patterson Descendants
Zacheus Patterson (1781-1822) immigrated from Scotland to Cayuga County, New York and married Tryphena Olds (who possibly was also a Scottish immigrant). This Zacheus Patterson (1781-1822) is not the same individual as the Zacheus Patterson (ca.b.1753) who was a son of John John Patterson, and who lived in Warren and Cayuga Counties, New York. Three of the children of Zacheus Patterson (1781-1822) immi- grated in 1840 to Kintore, Ontario. The other three children moved to Ohio and Michigan. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Descendants and relatives in Canada lived in Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere.
Groundwork
An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance painting The Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism. Yet these techniques rely on a powerful compositional element that often goes overlooked. Groundwork provides the first in-depth examination of the complex relationship between figure and ground in Renaissance painting. “Ground” can refer to the preparation of a work’s surface, the fictive floor or plane, or the background on which figuration occurs. In laying the material founda...
