Invitation GB

D u M u s é e L é o n L e c L è r e a u M u s é e D ' H i s t o i r e D e L ' a r t e t D ' a r c H é o L o g i e 4 4 Nicole Gesché-Koning Assistante chargée d'exercices au Centre de recherches et d'études technologiques des arts plastiques L e M u s é e L é o N L e C L è r e (F o N d A t i o N A r C h é o L o G i q u e d e L ' u N i v e r s i t é d e B r u x e L L e s)

The sculptor Lorado Taft (1860-1936) wanted all Americans to experience great works of art in their school and museum collections. But Taft also had a very particular definition of art; for him, art meant sculpture in the classical tradition by the great Ancient and Renaissance masters. He expressed this pedagogical agenda with great enthusiasm and persistence over his long career and he took part in a variety of popular activities to bring art to the wider population. Primary among these were his many lectures and publications, as well as his never-built Dream Museum of plaster casts, his peep shows, or dioramas, of famous artists’ studios, and his children’s play, The Gates of Paradise. With the use of such diverse media – literary, visual, and performative – Taft sought to elevate understanding of the past as a means to cultural betterment for schoolchildren, using the collecting and display of art to make a better world.

Actes du colloque de rentrée 2012 du Collège de France, "Hommage à Ernest Renan", Paris, Odile Jacob, 2013

In Situ, 2016

2020

Heritage, 2019

This paper reflects on the embrace of the Ancient world in modernity and the journey to Greece as a vehicle for their reciprocal reshaping. In the interwar period, new visual narratives emerged in Western accounts, proposing alternative contexts for Greek cultural heritage and associating regional culture with the emergence of modernism. The article investigates the mobility of modern travellers in Greece as an essential factor for the new contextualization of the country’s dominant cultural paradigm -Antiquity- as well as for the emergence of parallel narrations of the Mediterranean genius loci that examine the spatial imprint of heritage and tourism on the Greek urban, archaeological and natural environment. Western intellectuals, engineers, architects and urban planners, supported by a highly mobile network of editors, travel agencies, tourist cruises, architectural or archaeological conferences and congresses, contributed to the promotion of modern architecture and urban infrast...

Proceedings of a Conference BYZANTINE ATHENS, ed. Helen Saradi, 2021

A Thesis submitted to the University of Queensland for a Master of Museum Studies November 2021, 2022

A historical study of the British Museum and Acropolis Museum with reference to the repatriation debate of the Parthenon Marbles.

Minerva. Revista De Filología Clásica , 2023

This article addresses the question of how the prestigious city of Athens, so central in the literary movement of the Second Sophistic, was represented in Claudius Aelianus’ miscellaneous compilations. These texts are the product of his readings and demonstrate the choices he made when selecting those facts that he thought worth remembering from the sources of which he made use. Therefore, the image of Athens reconstructed through the analysis presented in this article demonstrates how Aelianus refers to some well-chosen aspects of the city’s past and communicates them to his readers while reforming a specific image of the city. Indeed, the emphasis he uses when resorting to the use of literary practices, such as selecting or collecting information, illustrates the cultural values of his time, characterized by a predilection for classical Athens