More legacies of antiquity, reworkings of what remains. Displacements. Funerary portraits. Loss and the burden of interpretation. I have been posting some photographs of statues from the extraordinary collections in the Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The museum also holds a large collection of funerary reliefs from ancient Palmyra, the oasis city in Syria that once served as…
archaeography
museum piece
Museum basement. Archaeological theatre.
The Admiral’s House — re-staging power
Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland. Built for Admiral George Delaval in 1720. Darkroom reprint of my photo of 2012. A story of land, inheritance, entrepreneurial opportunity, the roots of local power in global interconnections – and quirky radical taste transformed into an archetype of architectural style. [Link] to a previous post. The Delaval family had owned…
Ovidiana — archaeological theatre
Becoming stone [Link] [Link]
Roman
A Roman. 300 CE? No provenance, no context. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Classical figuration
National Museum Athens. 1992.