Anna Anguissola

Gianluca Miniaci

Alessandro Buono

Uses case studies to examine the social context and cultural and political management of appropriating abandoned objects and assets. Forsaken Relics is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, archaeology, and ethnography on the topic of the appropriation of disputed goods and places. Scholars with diverse backgrounds convened to address this common challenge: how different societies in time and space managed to claim and re-appropriate alleged abandoned or ownerless goods or things in ruin. The volume includes a diverse range of case studies  from Neolithic sites in Eastern Europe to ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean, encompassing early modern and present-day Europe  reflecting on the ways in which actions can be used to legitimise appropriation, with a particular focus on ritual actions and practices. The objective of this book is to stimulate comparative analysis of this topic in both ancient and modern societies, by identifying the actors of appropriation, examining the definition of abandonment, and exploring the ritual aspects intrinsic in actions such as inventorying, dedication and communication to ancestors, and prayers to gods. Ritual actions, in the last instance, were designed to legitimise the reappropriation and resignification of places and goods classified as abandoned or in a state of ruin, and to recreate locality, kinship, and communities.

Practices and Rituals of Appropriating Abandoned Artifacts from Antiquity to Modern Times

Forsaken Relics

Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.

Workshop Practice and Modes of Viewing

Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture

Davide Gasparotto

Salvatore Settis

"The dual exhibitions...focus on large - and small - scale repetitions of Greek statuary types in ancient Rome and modern Europe. The two exhibitions - which for us mark the start of a dialogue between the new space in Milan designed by Rem Koolhaas and our venue in Venice, in Ca’ Corner della Regina - depitct antiquity as being different from how we customarily think of it: whereby statuary white was color, uniqueness was multiple, and authorship shared."--Page 45.

The Greek Canon and Its Mutations

Serial

This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and the cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For such issues the city of Pompeii provides a rare case in point, due to the extraordinary concentration and nuanced readability of contextual archaeological data. Coloured by their exceptional charm, Pompeii's ruins unveil the dynamic interplay of space, décor and lifestyle, and how this shaped and rekindled social communication.

Riservatezza, condivisione e prestigio negli ambienti ad alcova di Pompei

Intimità a Pompei

Agneta Freccero

Barbro Santillo Frizell, Premessa; Marcello Barbanera, Agneta Freccero, Archeologia, architettura, restauro: lo studio di una collezione di antichit� come storia culturale; Marcello Barbanera, Agneta Freccero, Archeology, Architecture, Restoration: the Study of a Collection of Antiquities as Cultural History; Avvertenze e ringraziamenti; SAGGI: Daniela Candilio, Tutela e conservazione della collezione di antichit� di palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari; Patrizia Cavazzini, Il palazzo e la famiglia Lancellotti nel primo Seicento; Paolo Sanvito, Il ruolo dei cortili nelle collezioni di antiquitates come luogo di rappresentazione del patriziato. Il caso di palazzo Lancellotti; Anna Anguissola, La storia della collezione Lancellotti di antichit�; Paolo Liverani, Le antichit� Lancellotti nei Musei Vaticani; Agneta Freccero, Made for Collections. Three Consuls and Sempronia; Marina Prusac, The Ninth Mask from the Temple of Venus and Roma?; Alessandro Danesi, Silvia Gambardella, Il restauro come mezzo di ricerca storica. La conservazione delle sculture di palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari; Agneta Freccero, Changing Ideals in Conservation: CATALOGO: Antichit� nel Palazzo Lancellotti; Statue e teste ideali; Togati, busti e ritratti; Sarcofagi; Sculture e rilievi di carattere vario; Iscrizioni e altari funerari; Opere non antiche o di dubbia antichit�; Antichit� nei Musei Vaticani; Sculture; Sarcofagi; Dispersi e inaccessibili; Appendice; Bibliografia.

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