Antiquities In Motion

Author : Barbara Furlotti
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781606065914

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Antiquities in Motion by Barbara Furlotti Pdf

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 Drawing on vast unpublished archival material, she offers answers to novel questions: How were antiquities excavated?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?

Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262018517

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Illusions in Motion by Erkki Huhtamo Pdf

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.

Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593318836

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Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick Pdf

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.

Author : John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015031047841

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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America by John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson Pdf

Author : Jamie Kreiner,Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 250354911X

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Motions of Late Antiquity by Jamie Kreiner,Helmut Reimitz Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0001898501

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

Author : Emanuela Bianchi,Sara Brill,Brooke Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192528223

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Antiquities Beyond Humanism by Emanuela Bianchi,Sara Brill,Brooke Holmes Pdf

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.

Author : Rosemary A. Joyce,Susan D. Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 1938645502

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Things in Motion by Rosemary A. Joyce,Susan D. Gillespie Pdf

"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.

Author : Kevin M. McGeough
Publisher : Discourses in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
ISBN : 1781799814

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Representations of Antiquity in Film by Kevin M. McGeough Pdf

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.

Author : Sean V. Leatherbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000023336

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity by Sean V. Leatherbury Pdf

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.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1656 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435067538223

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Simon Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134237555

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Philosophy, God and Motion by Simon Oliver Pdf

In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. This book shows this to be a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion was a broader and more mysterious category, applying to moral as well as physical movements. Simon Oliver presents fresh interpretations of key figures in the history of western thought including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and Newton, examining the thinkers’ handling of the concept of motion. Through close readings of seminal texts in ancient and medieval cosmology and early modern natural philosophy, the books moves from antique to modern times investigating how motion has been of great significance within theology, philosophy and science. Particularly important is the relation between motion and God, following Aristotle traditional doctrines of God have understood the divine as the ‘unmoved mover’ while post-Holocaust theologians have suggested that in order to be compassionate God must undergo the motion of suffering. The text argues that there may be an authentically theological, as well as a natural scientific understanding of motion. This volume will prove a major contribution to theology, the history of Christian thought and to the growing field of science and religion.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015039517019

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Jelena Bogdanovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351359603

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Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium by Jelena Bogdanovic Pdf

Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in the medieval Mediterranean. Case studies examine encounters with the holy through the perspective of the human body and sensory dimensions of sacred space, and discuss the dynamics of perception when experiencing what was constructed, represented, and understood as sacred. The comparative analysis investigates viewers’ recognitions of the sacred in specific locations or segments of space with an emphasis on the experiential and conceptual relationships between sacred spaces and human bodies. This volume thus reassesses the empowering aspects of space, time, and human agency in religious contexts. By focusing on investigations of human endeavors towards experiential and visual expressions that shape perceptions of holiness, this study ultimately aims to present a better understanding of the corporeality of sacred art and architecture. The research points to how early Christians and Byzantines teleologically viewed the divine source of the sacred in terms of its ability to bring together – but never fully dissolve – the distinctions between the human and divine realms. The revealed mechanisms of iconic perception and noetic contemplation have the potential to shape knowledge of the meanings of the sacred as well as to improve our understanding of the liminality of the profane and the sacred.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9355397593

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Antiquities of the Jews ; Book - V by Flavius Josephus Pdf

The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - V "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.