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Born Free? Repetition And Fantasy In The Act Of Killing, Homay King

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Spoliation In Medieval Rome, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Beneath The Printed Pattern: Display And Disguise In Ukiyo-E Bijinga, Anna Moblard Meier

Books, pamphlets, catalogues, and scrapbooks

Text panels and selected images from an exhibition curated by Anna Moblard Meier held in the Bryn Mawr College Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, from September 25, 2013- December 20, 2013.

Spaces Of Identity In East European Cities, Carola Hein

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

Review of

Czaplicka, John; Gelazis, Nida; Ruble, Blair A., eds. (2009). Cities After the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity. Washington, DC, Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, 368 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, index, $65 hardcover;

Makaš, Emily Gunzburger; Conley, Tanja Damljanović, eds. (2009). Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe. London, New York: Routledge, 286 pp., illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, $120 hardcover;

Stanilov, Kiril, ed. (2007). The Post-Socialist City: Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Dordrecht: Springer, 490 pp., illustrations, maps, …

Review Of Die Kirchen Der Stadt Rom Im Mittelalter 1050-1300, Band 2: S. Giovanni In Laterano, By Peter Cornelius Claussen, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Anabasis, Homay King

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Chronology, Uncertainty And Gis: A Methodology For Characterising And Understanding Landscapes Of The Ancient Near East, Dan Lawrence, Jennie Bradbury, Robert Dunford

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Modern archaeological research is confronted with a legacy of projects which stretch back to the early 20th century. Alongside this, massive amounts of disparate data are being generated by on-going excavation and survey. Scholars are also beginning to use satellite imagery to interpret and re-interpret archaeological data-sets both old and new. In the Near East this disparity is compounded by the diversity of dating schemes and inter- pretative frameworks used by archaeologists studying the region. Faced with these issues, how is it possible to combine such data into a coherent and comprehensive format, adding value to both old and on-going …

Instances Of Appropriation In Late Roman And Early Christian Art, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Romanità A Roma: Le Basiliche Del Xii Secolo Fra Tradizioni E Innovazioni, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The “Romanness” (romanitas) of the cathedral portico in Civita Castellana is obvious, but within Rome the criteria of “Romanness” are not so clear. This article takes the architecture of twelfth-century churches as a case in point. Scholars generally agree that romanitas is retrospective and evocative of local tradition, but many of the signature features of these churches – bell towers, marble cloisters, Ionic trabeated porches, marble altar ciboria, paschal candlestands, the “schola cantorum” – were eleventh- or twelfth-century innovations, some- times imported from elsewhere. It is proposed that these features were “invented traditions” as defined by Eric Hobsbawm, which create …

'My Tomb Will Be Opened In Eight Hundred Years’: A New Way Of Seeing The Afterlife In Six Dynasties China, Jie Shi

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

Jie Shi analyzes the sixth-century epitaph of Prince Shedi Huiluo as both a funerary text and a burial object in order to show that the means of achieving posthumous immortality radically changed during the Six Dynasties. Whereas the Han-dynasty vision of an immortal afterlife counted mainly on the imperishability of the tomb itself, Shedi’s epitaph predicted that the tomb housing it would eventually be ruined. This new, pessimistic vision of tombs was shaped by the experience people had in the Six Dynasties of encountering numerous ruined tombs in their daily life. To secure an afterlife for the deceased, they adopted …

A Walk Through The Past: Toward The Study Of Archaeological Museums In Italy, Greece, And Israel, Andrea Guzzetti

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Archaeological museums and museum displays help to broadcast ideological statements, particularly concerning the formation of national identities, yet the ways in which the messages being transmitted have been articulated within the actual spaces devoted to the display of artifacts are still far from being thoroughly studied. More specifically, little attention has been dedicated to some of the most immediate means through which a museum interprets the past for the modern-day visitor, such as its plan, the arrangement of its collections in the galleries, and its visiting paths.

The dissertation examines the physical features a group of archaeological museums in Italy, …

On The Surface Of A Thessalian City: The Urban Survey Of Kastro Kallithea, Greece, Laura E. Surtees

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the establishment, occupation, and abandonment of Kastro Kallithea, a Hellenistic city in Achaia Phthiotis, Thessaly, through data collected from the intensive urban survey of the site. Kastro Kallithea is an orthogonal grid planned city with distinct zones of activities enclosed within a massive circuit wall running 2 km in length. The ancient name of the site is unknown, although it has been tentatively identified by Friedrich Stählin as the ancient polis of Peuma, known from coins and inscriptions. The site was founded in the late fourth century and was occupied into first century B.C.E. There is no …

Household Shrines And Cults In Roman Achaia: A New Approach To Examining Cultural Change Under The Roman Empire, Catherine W. Person

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the changing nature of household cult practices, a currently under-studied category of evidence, in the Roman province of Achaia, from the first century BCE to the fourth century CE, with reference to pre-Roman domestic religion. The primary aim of this investigation is to understand to what extent Roman cult practices were integrated in select households across Roman Achaia. Household religion is an ideal indicator for cultural change and shifting cultural identities; it was essential in both Greek and Roman cultures and vital to the survival of the family unit and the wider community, but was conducted differently …

Letter To The Editor, Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, Barbara Miller Lane

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Ancient Gems In The Middle Ages: Riches And Ready-Mades, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Introduction, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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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

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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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 …

Specific Objects: Lee Bontecou’S Steel And Canvas Reliefs, 1959-1964, Lesley E. Shipley

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation focuses on the reception and interpretation of the welded steel and canvas reliefs that the American artist Lee Bontecou created between 1959 and 1964.In Chapter 1,I present an overview of the initial critical reception of Bontecou’s steel and canvas reliefs, highlighting those exhibitions and texts from the first half of the 1960s that stand out as important records of this work’s reception. In Chapter 2, I examine the feminist claiming of Bontecou’s reliefs that occurred between 1965 and 1976.Here, I contextualize the feminist response to Bontecou’s art within its historical moment, in order to consider how feminism has …

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops For Modernity, Barbara Miller Lane

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Approaches To The Study Of Personhood In The Early Mycenaean Era, James C. Wright

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Shaping Tokyo: Land Development And Planning Practice In The Early Modern Japanese Metropolis, Carola Hein

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

From the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese elites experimented with foreign planning concepts and transformed their cities to respond to the demands of modernization. Even though they faced similar situations, knew about established European techniques, and had large open spaces available, they established planning practices that were different from those of their foreign counterparts, building on the country’s own urban history and form, particularities in landownership, development needs, urban planning techniques, and design preferences. This article highlights, first, key issues of landownership, urban form, and urban development in the Edo period (1603—1867) and provides an overview of the urban transformation of Tokyo …

The Porticello Bronzes Once Again, Brunilde S. Ridgway

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review Of Il Mosaico Absidale Di S. Clemente A Roma: "Exemplum" Della Chiesa Riformata, By Stefano Riccioni, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Revisiting Indian Rouletted Ware And The Impact Of Indian Ocean Trade In Early Historic South Asia, Peter Magee

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Indian Rouletted Ware pottery is the iconic marker of the overseas reach of the subcontinent at the turn of the first millennium AD. In the mid twentieth century this was naturally seen as prompted by the contemporary Roman Empire, while the later post-colonial discourse has emphasised the independence and long life of Indian initiatives. In this new analysis the author demonstrates a more complex socio-economic situation. While Greyware is distributed long term over south India, Rouletted ware is made in at least two regional centres for coastal communities using a new ceramic language, one appropriate to an emerging international merchant …

The Porticello Bronzes Once Again, Brunilde S. Ridgway

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Ecclesiastical Architecture In Rome And Central Italy, Ca. 350-650, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review Of Unthinking The Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History Beyond Eurocentrism, By K. Vlassopoulos, James C. Wright

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review Of From Arrival To Incorporation: Migrants To The U.S. In A Global Era, Edited By Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, And Alan M. Kraut; Letters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices Of International Migrants, Edited By Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber, And Suzanne M. Sinke, Gary W. Mcdonogh

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

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