O N L I N E – V O R T R A G
Dr. Joshua J. Thomas (Universitäten Oxford und München)
Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2022, um 17 Uhr s. t. (CET)
A Bronze Ox and a Wounded Dog: Restaging Greek Statues of Animals in Rome
A great many "old masters" (opera nobilia) were brought to Rome from the Greek East and redisplayed in public settings. As recent research has demonstrated, these Greek masterpieces sometimes developed new meanings and associations in their secondary Roman contexts. This paper will focus on an important but under-investigated sub-category of this material: Greek animal statues that were restaged in Rome. Several case studies will be examined, including a bronze dog in the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter and a bronze bull in the Forum Boarium. It is suggested that these statues also took on new meanings in their Roman display contexts, but that significant insights can be gained by reconstructing the original functions of these pieces in the Greek East. The result is a new contribution to the growing scholarly discourse on the 'resemanticisation' of Greek artworks redisplayed in Rome.
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Univ.Doz. Dr. Thomas Kruse – Univ.Prof. i.R. Dr. Marion Meyer – Univ.Prof. i.R. Dr. Danuta Shanzer
A Bronze Ox and a Wounded Dog: Restaging Greek Statues of Animals in Rome
