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Antiquities in Motion

Author : Barbara Furlotti
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065912
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Antiquities in Motion written by Barbara Furlotti and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new approach to understand the trade of antiquities in early modern Rome traces the journey of objects from discovery to display. Barbara Furlotti presents a dynamic interpretation of the early modern market for antiquities, relying on the innovative notion of archaeological finds as mobile items. She reconstructs the journey of ancient objects from digging sites to venues where they were sold, such as Roman marketplaces and antiquarians’ storage spaces; to sculptors’ workshops, where they were restored; and to Italian and other European collections, where they arrived after complicated and costly travel over land and sea. She shifts the attention away from collectors to peasants with shovels, dealers and middlemen, and restorers who unearthed, cleaned up, and repaired or remade objects, recuperating the role these actors played in Rome’s socioeconomic structure. Furlotti also examines the changes in economic value, meaning, and appearance that antiquities underwent as they moved trhoughout their journeys and as they reached the locations in which they were displayed. Drawing on vast unpublished archival material, she offers answers to novel questions: How were antiquities excavated? How and where were they traded? How were laws about the ownership of ancient finds made, followed, and evaded?

Illusions in Motion

Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262018519
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Illusions in Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.

The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America

Author : John Ward Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America written by John Ward Dean and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antiquities

Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593318838
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Antiquities written by Cynthia Ozick and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.

Things in Motion

Author : Rosemary A. Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938645501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Things in Motion written by Rosemary A. Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contributors to Things in Motion, collectively, demonstrate the dynamic capacity of things in motion, from the point where things emerge from source material, to their circulation in the contemporary world, including their extended circulation through reproduction in other media. The various chapters show that examining the itineraries of things multiplies the assemblages things form and multiplies the sites at which we can recognize things in motion. None of the things discussed seem to ever have died. Their itineraries are continued by their movement in and out of museums and curation facilities, where many of them have come to rest temporarily, the circulation of their images, and their adaptation in sometimes unexpected contemporary material culture. Their itineraries also include the scholarship about them, to which this volume contributes, making it another site assembled by these active things"--Provided by publisher.

Antiquities Beyond Humanism

Author : Emanuela Bianchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019252822X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Antiquities Beyond Humanism written by Emanuela Bianchi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human and dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things. Antiquities beyond Humanismseeks to explode the presumed dichotomy between the ancient tradition and the twenty-first century "turn" by exploring the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human. Greek philosophy in particular is filled with metaphysical explanations of the cosmos grounded in observations of the natural world, while other areas of ancient humanistic inquiry - poetry, political theory, medicine - extend into the realms of plant, animal, and even stone life, continually throwing into question the ontological status of living and non-living beings. By casting the ancient non-human or more-than-human in a new light in relation to contemporary questions of gender, ecological networks and non-human communities, voice, eros, and the ethics and the politics of posthumanism, the volume demonstrates that encounters with ancient texts, experienced as both familiar and strange, can help forge new understandings of life, whether understood as physical, psychical, divine, or cosmic.

Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Representations of Antiquity in Film

Author : Kevin M. McGeough
Publisher : Discourses in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781781799819
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Antiquity in Film written by Kevin M. McGeough and published by Discourses in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies. This book was released on 2022 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to how the ancient world is represented in film, especially in Hollywood cinema, and considers the potential that movies have to help us think about antiquity and their relationship with traditional academic historical work.

Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

Author : Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities written by Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Art in Motion

Author : Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271083034
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Art in Motion written by Mariah Proctor-Tiffany and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visually rich volume, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany reconstructs the art collection and material culture of the fourteenth-century French queen Clémence de Hongrie, illuminating the way the royal widow gave objects as part of a deliberate strategy to create a lasting legacy for herself and her family in medieval Paris. After the sudden death of her husband, King Louis X, and the loss of her promised income, young Clémence fought for her high social status by harnessing the visual power of possessions, displaying them, and offering her luxurious objects as gifts. Clémence adeptly performed the role of queen, making a powerful argument for her place at court and her income as she adorned her body, the altars of her chapels, and her dining tables with sculptures, paintings, extravagant textiles, manuscripts, and jewelry—the exclusive accoutrements of royalty. Proctor-Tiffany analyzes the queen’s collection, maps the geographic trajectories of her gifts of art, and interprets Clémence’s generosity using anthropological theories of exchange and gift giving. Engaging with the art inventory of a medieval French woman, this lavishly illustrated microhistory sheds light on the material and social culture of the late Middle Ages. Scholars and students of medieval art, women’s studies, digital mapping, and the anthropology of ritual and gift giving especially will welcome Proctor-Tiffany’s meticulous research.

Objects in Motion

Author : Hallie G. Meredith
Publisher : British Archaeological Association
ISBN 13 : 9781407308111
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Objects in Motion written by Hallie G. Meredith and published by British Archaeological Association. This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a series of papers that had their origins in a symposium convened whilst the editor was a Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York in May 2008. Contents: Introduction (Hallie G. Meredith); Christianizing Constantine: Eusebius' Vita Constantini as a Late Antique Social Canvas (Hallie G. Meredith); The Portable Altar in Christian Tradition and Practice (Crispin Paine); Telling Jerusalem: Miracles and the Moveable Past in Late Antique Christianity (Georgia Frank); The Matter of Ivory and the Movement of Ideas: Thoughts on some Christian Diptychs of Late Antiquity (Anthony Cutler); The Art and Ritual of Manichaean Magic: Text, Object and Image from the Mediterranean to Central Asia (Matthew P. Canepa); The Narrative Fabric of the Genoese Pallio and the Silken Diplomacy of Michael VIII Palaiologos (Ida Toth); Conclusion (Henry Maguire).

Motions of Late Antiquity

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503549118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Motions of Late Antiquity written by Jamie Kreiner and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did Late Antiquity actually end? Peter Brown, who has done so much to define the field, once replied: 'always later than you think'. This book takes stock of this insight and, in continual conversation with Peter Brown's work, applies it to ever wider social and geopolitical horizons. The essays of this volume demonstrate that Late Antiquity is not just a period in which the late Roman world grew into the three successor cultures of the Roman Empire--the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic world--but also a set of hermeneutical tools for exploring historical transformation. A late antique view considers both the profound plurality of past societies and the surprising instances when a culture coheres out of those differences. The studies here follow those motions of fracture and alignment, and they show how working along the lines of a single but deeply textured vision of Late Antiquity makes it possible to integrate different fields such as Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic studies, and to start a new conversation between ancient and medieval history.

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

Author : Sean V. Leatherbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000023338
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity written by Sean V. Leatherbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually. These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts – Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan – acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean.

Facing the Text

Author : Lucy Peltz
Publisher : Huntington Library Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873282611
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Text written by Lucy Peltz and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of books were customized with prints and drawings in a practice called extra-illustration. These books were often massively extended, lavishly bound, and prized by their owners as objects of display, status, and exchange. The scale of these compilations as well as their interdisciplinary nature - at once literary texts, printed books, art collections, and indexes of visual culture - have typically excluded them from histories of art and literature.0In this book, Lucy Peltz maps a history of extra-illustration and its social and cultural meanings, providing a fascinating account of the practice itself and the often colourful personalities who engaged in it. The remarkable contents of key extra-illustrated books are explored, along with the broader historical and commercial contexts in which they were produced and enjoyed.