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Contribution to Book
Roman Sculpture in Context: Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture, Volume 6
Visual & Performing Arts Faculty Book and Media Gallery
  • Peter D. De Staebler
  • Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
  • Marice Rose, Fairfield University
Role

Co-editors: Peter D. De Staebler, Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta

Contributing author: Marice Rose

Document Type
Book Contribution
Description/Summary

Marice Rose is a contributing author, "Body/Culture: Display and Reception of the Farnese Hercules," Chapter 10, pp 177-197.

This volume tackles a pressing issue in Roman art history: that many sculptures conventionally used in our scholarship and teaching lack adequate information about their find locations. Questions of context are complex, and any theoretical and methodological reframing of Roman sculpture demands academic transparency. This volume is dedicated to privileging content and context over traditions of style and aesthetics. Through case studies, the chapters illustrate multivariate ways to contextualize ancient objects. The authors encourage Roman art historians to look beyond conventional interpretations; to reclaim from the study of Greek sculpture the Roman originals that are too often relegated to discussions of "copies" and "models"; to consider the multiple, dynamic, and shifting contexts that one sculpture could experience over the centuries of its display; and to recognize that postantique receptions can also offer insight into interpretations of ancient viewers. The collected topics were originally presented in three conference sessions: "Grounding Roman Sculpture" (Archaeological Institute of America, 2019); "Ancient Sculpture in Context" (College Art Association, 2017); and "Ancient Sculpture in Context II: Reception" (College Art Association, 2019).

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ISBN
1948488639
Publication Date
2-1-2021
Publication Information

Rose, Marice. “Body/Culture: Display and Reception of The Farnese Hercules,” in Roman Sculpture in Context: Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture, Volume 6. Edited by Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta and Peter de Staebler (Archaeological Institute of America, 2021), 177-197.

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Citation Information
Peter D. De Staebler, Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta and Marice Rose. "Roman Sculpture in Context: Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture, Volume 6" (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marice_rose/21/