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editorial

Art, Protest, and Public Space

October 1, 2021

By Ashley E. Dunn, Constance C. McPhee, and Allison Rudnick

A selection of prints investigate the role art has played in revolutions, protests, and social activist movements from the eighteenth century to the present.

video

Art in Public Places, 1973

March 20, 2020

“It seems funny to say it, but long before there was an ‘art world,’ there was art in the world.”

Essay

From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865–1915

October 1, 2004

By Thayer Tolles

Throughout the ages, public sculptures have served as didactic tools, offering moral, patriotic, and cultural instruction. Symbols of pride, they have proclaimed cities as tastemakers in civic and aesthetic matters.

editorial

Seeds of Impressionism: Public Parks, Private Gardens with Author Colta Ives

April 18, 2018

By Rachel High

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High sits down with curator emerita Colta Ives to discuss the transformation of Paris during the nineteenth century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks.

Publication

Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence

Discusses masterworks by great Romantic, Impressionist, and early modern artists influenced by France's 19th-century horticultural revolution

Essay

Roman Housing

February 1, 2009

By Ian Lockey

Domestic display is a good example of the conspicuous consumption of the Roman elite, proving that they had wealth and therefore power and authority.

Essay

Roman Egypt

October 1, 2000

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

The conquest of Egypt and its incorporation into the Roman empire inaugurated a new fascination with its ancient culture.

Essay

Roman Painting

October 1, 2004

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Although ancient literary references inform us of Roman paintings on wood, ivory, and other materials, works that have survived are in the durable medium of fresco that was used to adorn the interiors of private homes in Roman cities and in the countryside.

Essay

Roman Sarcophagi

April 1, 2007

By Heather T. Awan

Sarcophagi had been used for centuries by the Etruscans and the Greeks; when the Romans eventually adopted inhumation as their primary funerary practice, both of these cultures had an impact on the development of Roman sarcophagi.

Essay

Roman Inscriptions

February 1, 2009

By Christopher S. Lightfoot

The variety of media used for [Roman] inscriptions (stone, metal, pottery, mosaic, fresco, glass, wood, and papyrus) is matched by the diverse ways in which the inscriptions themselves were used.

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