The Warren Cup

Author: Dyfri Williams
Publisher: Objects in Focus
ISBN: 9780714122601
Category : Drinking cups
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The silver Warren Cup, created early in the first century AD, is a remarkably important and beautiful masterpiece of Roman art. The scenes on either side show a pair of male lovers in low relief. This book examines the iconography of the Warren Cup, and sets it in its social and historical context. It also discusses the cup's modern history, especially the life of the eccentric collector, Edward Perry Warren, from which it takes its name. The cup's acquisition by the British Museum in 1999, after years of obscurity due to the explicit nature of the scenes depicted, caused quite a stir in the press. This extraordinary work of art not only provides a means of understanding ancient Roman attitudes to sexuality, but also challenges us across the centuries to reflect on our own contemporary attitudes."--BOOK JACKET.

A Little Gay History

Author: R. B. Parkinson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023116663X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Originally published: London: The British Museum Press, 2013.

Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World

Author: Carolyn Higbie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191077151
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Greeks and Romans in antiquity and draws parallels with other cultures and eras to offer contexts for understanding that fascination. Statues, bronze weapons, books, and bones might have been prized for various reasons: because they had religious value, were the work of highly regarded artists and writers, had been possessed by famous mythological figures, or were relics of a long disappeared past. However, attitudes towards these objects also changed over time: sculpture which was originally created for a religious purpose became valuable as art and could be removed from its original setting, while historians discovered value in inscriptions and other texts for supporting historical arguments and literary scholars sought early manuscripts to establish what authors really wrote. As early as the Hellenistic era, some Greeks and Romans began to collect objects and might even display them in palaces, villas, or gardens; as these objects acquired value, a demand was created for more of them, and so copyists and forgers created additional pieces - while copyists imitated existing pieces of art, sometimes adapting to their new settings, forgers created new pieces to complete a collection, fill a gap in historical knowledge, make some money, or to indulge in literary play with knowledgeable readers. The study of forged relics is able to reveal not only what artefacts the Greeks and Romans placed value on, but also what they believed they understood about their past and how they interpreted the evidence for it. Drawing on the latest scholarship on forgery and fakes, as well as a range of examples, this book combines stories about frauds with an analysis of their significance, and illuminates and explores the link between collectors, scholars, and forgers in order to offer us a way to better understand the power that objects held over the ancient Greeks and Romans.

The Last Archer

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999655351
Category : Archers
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
A Green Ember story set during Heather and Picket's arrival at Cloud Mountain, The Last Archer follows the journey of Jo Shanks. Jo is a gifted archer with a burden on his back and a fire within. Eager to see the Longtreaders receive justice, he travels from his Halfwind Citadel home to a Cloud Mountain poised on the brink of war. What he finds there will confront his convictions and test his resolve as the war begins and King Jupiter's heir is revealed. A kingdom in the balance. An arrow aimed at the heart of darkness. Who will take the shot?

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Author: Neil MacGregor
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141966831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with an object from the 21st century which represents the world we live in today. Neil MacGregor's aim is not simply to describe these remarkable things, but to show us their significance - how a stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people, how Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency or how an early Victorian tea-set tells us about the impact of empire. Each chapter immerses the reader in a past civilisation accompanied by an exceptionally well-informed guide. Seen through this lens, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. An intellectual and visual feast, it is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years.

Secreted Desires

Author: Michael Matthew Kaylor
Publisher: Michael Matthew Kaylor
ISBN: 8021041269
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description

Homosexuality in Greece and Rome

Author: Thomas K. Hubbard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520234308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
Important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period, the volume includes writings by Plato, Sappho Aeschines, Catullus and Juvenal.

A Memory of Christmas Tea

Author: Tom Hegg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785559446219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
On a lonely Christmas a nephew remembers his beloved great-aunt and realizes the value of her legacy, a message of advice revealing the true spirit of the season.

Gender, Sexuality and Museums

Author: Amy K. Levin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136943633
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 539

Book Description
Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on women and museums. At last, students of museum studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies and museum professionals have a single resource. The book is organised into three thematic parts, each with its own introduction. Sections focus on women in museum work, applications of feminist and LGBT theories to museum exhibitions, exhibitions and collections pertaining to women and individuals who are LGBT. The Case studies in a fourth part provide different perspectives to key topics, such as memorials and memorializing; modernism and museums; and natural history collections. The collection concludes with a bibliographic essay evaluating scholarship to date on gender and sexuality in museums. Amy K. Levin brings together outstanding articles published in the past as well as new essays. The collection’s scope is international, with articles about US, Canadian, and European institutions. Gender, Sexuality and Museums: A Routledge Reader is an essential resource for those studying gender and sexuality in the museum.

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture

Author: Jaś Elsner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000718
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
Demonstrates the central significance of rhetoric in ancient responses to and receptions of Roman art.