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Introduction, Dale Kinney
Introduction, Dale Kinney
History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Ancient Gems In The Middle Ages: Riches And Ready-Mades, Dale Kinney
Ancient Gems In The Middle Ages: Riches And Ready-Mades, Dale Kinney
History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship
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The Discourse Of Columns, Dale Kinney
The Discourse Of Columns, Dale Kinney
History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship
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The Pygmalion Impulse In Historic Preservation: The Dresden Zwinger, Christiane Hertel
The Pygmalion Impulse In Historic Preservation: The Dresden Zwinger, Christiane Hertel
History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Spolia As Signifiers In Twelfth-Century Rome, Dale Kinney
Spolia As Signifiers In Twelfth-Century Rome, Dale Kinney
History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship
Opinions on the meaning of the reused objects known as spolia range from Michael Greenhalgh’s position that in 95% of cases, reuse was purely pragmatic to Maria Fabricius Hansen’s claim that the spolia in fourth-century church colonnades represented a Christian worldview in which spolia were potent metaphors of a new world order. Studies of twelfth-century Rome have tended to interpret the use of spolia as an expression of papal ideology and the spirit of the twelfth-century renovatio. This essay evaluates these alternatives and proposes an interpretation informed by semiotic theory but grounded in contextual terminology and the physical and intellectual …