Tag Archive for Antiquity

NGV Forum | How to look good naked - From Antiquity to the Renaissance

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Forum: How to look good naked- From Antiquity to the Renaissance Sat 9 Nov, 1-3.30pm Ancient Greeks Looking Good: Nudity, Clothing and Antiquities at the NGV The ancient Greeks celebrated the body beautiful – which, for males at least, also meant the naked body. Men exercised and competed at athletic games in the nude, and their victories in both sport and war were commemorated with statues of idealised, perfectly formed nude bodies. Women in contrast were depicted clothed, until famously and scandalously the 4th century BC sculptor Praxiteles created the Aphrodite…

Masterclasses | Looking at Greek Vases with Melbourne University and the Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Two masterclasses presented by the University of Melbourne and the Ian Potter Museum of Art. The Mysteries of Thera: Pompeii of the Bronze Age Aegean, Saturday August 24 Sometimes referred to as the mythical Atlantis, Thera (modern day Santorini) was buried by a volcanic eruption over 1600 years before Pompeii, preserving some of the most startling and exquisite artworks of the ancient world. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne presents an afternoon of masterclasses on the religion, art and culture of this bronze age Aegean site with…

Funding: Sir John Soane Travelling Fellowship (UK)

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Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation Traveling Fellowship Program Deadline: March 1st 2011 The purpose of the Traveling Fellowship is to enable students in graduate degree programs in the history of art, architecture and the decorative arts to travel to England to pursue research projects related to any aspect of the work of Sir John Soane or Sir John Soane’s Museum and its collections. These include Egyptian antiquities, classical antiquities, casts (in general), sculpture galleries, the history of museums, authentic restoration, architecture and architectural drawings c. 1650-1850, architectural models, architectural theory…

Call for Papers: Historiography and Antiquarianism (Sydney, 2011)

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Call for Papers Historiography and Antiquarianism 12-14 August 2011, University of Sydney, Australia Convenors: Frances Muecke (CAH, Sydney) & John Gagné (History, Sydney) Sponsors: Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney Organising Committee: Dr. Jenny Spinks (Postdoc, History, Melbourne); Dr. Gary Ianziti (Centre for the History of European Discourses, Queensland); Dr. Amelia Robertson Brown (CAH, Queensland); Prof. D. Potts (Archaeology, Sydney); PG rep.: Christian Callisen (QUT) Titles and 150-word abstract due 15 January 2021 This conference aims to…