Art Piece: A white horse rearing up attempts to break away from the crowd below. At the bottom lies a digital printmaking rendition of the Nine Circles of Hell (Dante’s Inferno), while above lies Mount Purgatory (Dante’s Purgatorio) as a leaning tower.
Author: Discentes
Roman Art & Imperial Marmor
In this paper, I discuss the Roman imperial exploitation of valuable white and colored stone resources—or marmor—and the implications of their usage for public, provincial, and private arts across the Mediterranean. I argue that from the late Republic through the high Empire, Roman elites privileged marble, granite, porphyry, and other polished stones as signifiers of status, taste, and regional domination.
Brawn and Brains: An Avian Alliance (Phaedrus 2.6)
The tortoise’s best-known appearance in fable might be as the embodiment of “slow and steady wins the race,” but in Phaedrus’s Aquila et cornix, “The Eagle and the Crow,” the shelled reptile meets a less happy end. The titular characters conspire to break open the tortoise’s natural armor via another tried-and-true principle: gravity.
Food for Thought: Women’s Domestic Roles through the Culinary Iconography of Archaic Greek Terracotta Figurines
Photo: The collection of Archaic Greek terracotta figurines at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), image courtesy of author. Food for Thought: Women’s Domestic Roles through the Culinary Iconography of Archaic Greek Terracotta Figurines By Camille Blanco Among the corpus of ancient Greek artifacts found in the eastern Mediterranean, ceramics and pottery remain […]