UBC à la UNESCO: Reconciling Antiquity Ethics with Artifacts as Educational Resources
By Hannah Stengler For the past few years, the subject of unprovenanced items has been widely discussed within the AMNE department. An unprovenanced item is one which has not been given a context, its original location and use unknown. This can cause problems in studying an object because its context, where it was found in […]
Coloring Outside the Lines of Winckelmann’s Book: White Masculine Beauty and Feminine Polychromy
By Talia Neelis A specter is haunting our reception of the ancient world– the specter of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Dubbed the ‘Father of Art History,’ the 18th-century historian became a modern Pygmalion by rhetorically sculpting the canon of art historical values into his own Galatea. His fixation on the form of the white male sculptural […]