090115 UE Sculpture in Late Antiquity (2024S)

Essential general reading:

Smith, R. R. R. and Ward-Perkins, B. (2016). The Last Statues of Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (especially Chapter 1, but other chapters will be essential reading for thematic topics)

Kristensen, T. M. (2019). Statues. In: D. K. Pettegrew ed., The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.333-349.

Additional thematic reading:

Bauer, F. A. and Witschel, C. (2007). Statuen in der Spätantike. Weisbaden: Reichert.

Bergmann, M. and Kovacs, M. (2016). Portrait Styles. In: R. R. R. Smith and B. Ward-Perkins eds., The Last Statues of Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.280-294.

Jacobs, I. (2020). Old statues, new meanings. Literary, Epigraphic, and Archaeological Evidence for Christian Reidentification of Statuary. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 113.3, pp.789-836.

Kristensen, T. M. (2013). Making and Breaking the Gods: Christian Responses to Pagan Sculpture in Late Antiquity. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. (Chapter One)

Smith, R. R. R. (2016). Statue practice in the late Roman empire: numbers, costumes, and style. In: R. R. R. Smith and B. Ward-Perkins eds., The Last Statues of Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1-27.

Stirling, L. (2005). The Learned Collector. Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. (Chapter One and Chapter Five).

Videbach, C. (2015). Private Collections of Sculpture in Late Antiquity: An Overview of the Form, Function, and Tradition. In: J. Fejfer, M. Moltesen, and A. Rathje eds., Tradition. Transmission of Culture in the Ancient World. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, pp.451-480.

Ward-Perkins, B. (2016). Statues at the end of antiquity: the evidence of the inscribed bases. In: R. R. R. Smith and B. Ward-Perkins eds., The Last Statues of Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.28-42.

Further thematic reading will be provided for specific topics.