The Many Faces of the Lady of Elche. Essays on the Reception of an Iberian Sculpture
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- Nombre de pages155
- PrésentationRelié
- FormatGrand Format
- Poids0.51 kg
- Dimensions16,0 cm × 24,0 cm × 1,2 cm
- ISBN978-2-503-61030-6
- EAN9782503610306
- Date de parution01/01/2024
- CollectionArchaeology of the Mediterrane
- ÉditeurBrepols
Résumé
On 4 August 1897, farm workers in Elche — the site of ancient Ilici - discovered an Iberian sculpture of a woman that dated from the fifth-fourth centuries wo. French archaeologist Pierre Paris dubbed this figure 'the Lady of Elche', and promptly purchased the sculpture on behalf of the Louvre Museum. There, she drew the attention of European scholars who were intrigued by her stylistic features, finally concluding that she bore witness to the existence of a specifically Iberian art.
Since her discovery, the Lady of Elche has been a source of fascination not only for scholars, but also for artists, and she has become an icon of regional and national identity across Spain. This volume, co-written by an archaeologist and an anthropologist and translated here into English for the first time, seeks to explore the importance of the Lady of Elche, both for students of the past, and for the peoples of Iberia.
The authors here explore not only what we know - and still do not know — about her creation, but also engage with key questions about what she represents for the men and women of our time who have questioned, manipulated, admired, loved, and often reinvented the singular beauty of this iconic figure. The Mediterranean basin has always been an area of cross-cultural interactions and encounters, affected by recurrent episodes of warfare and religious rivalries but nonetheless featuring lands, peoples, and cultures that were bound together rather than divided by the sea.
This series focuses on the archaeology, and cognate disciplines, of the countries encircling the Mediterranean Sea, from Morocco and Spain in the West to the Levant, and covers a broad timespan that extends from prehistory through to early modern periods. In doing so, it aims to offer unique insights into developments around the Mediterranean, and the changing and creative nature of cultural contacts over time.
Monographs and edited collections are invited from a broad range of archaeological disciplines, including environmental sciences, landscape studies, urban studies, epigraphy, Egyptology, anthropology, visual culture, and multidisciplinary studies with a strong archaeological component. The series will also consider final reports from fieldwork and detailed data discussions if they are embedded within a clearly interpretive discussion.
Since her discovery, the Lady of Elche has been a source of fascination not only for scholars, but also for artists, and she has become an icon of regional and national identity across Spain. This volume, co-written by an archaeologist and an anthropologist and translated here into English for the first time, seeks to explore the importance of the Lady of Elche, both for students of the past, and for the peoples of Iberia.
The authors here explore not only what we know - and still do not know — about her creation, but also engage with key questions about what she represents for the men and women of our time who have questioned, manipulated, admired, loved, and often reinvented the singular beauty of this iconic figure. The Mediterranean basin has always been an area of cross-cultural interactions and encounters, affected by recurrent episodes of warfare and religious rivalries but nonetheless featuring lands, peoples, and cultures that were bound together rather than divided by the sea.
This series focuses on the archaeology, and cognate disciplines, of the countries encircling the Mediterranean Sea, from Morocco and Spain in the West to the Levant, and covers a broad timespan that extends from prehistory through to early modern periods. In doing so, it aims to offer unique insights into developments around the Mediterranean, and the changing and creative nature of cultural contacts over time.
Monographs and edited collections are invited from a broad range of archaeological disciplines, including environmental sciences, landscape studies, urban studies, epigraphy, Egyptology, anthropology, visual culture, and multidisciplinary studies with a strong archaeological component. The series will also consider final reports from fieldwork and detailed data discussions if they are embedded within a clearly interpretive discussion.
On 4 August 1897, farm workers in Elche — the site of ancient Ilici - discovered an Iberian sculpture of a woman that dated from the fifth-fourth centuries wo. French archaeologist Pierre Paris dubbed this figure 'the Lady of Elche', and promptly purchased the sculpture on behalf of the Louvre Museum. There, she drew the attention of European scholars who were intrigued by her stylistic features, finally concluding that she bore witness to the existence of a specifically Iberian art.
Since her discovery, the Lady of Elche has been a source of fascination not only for scholars, but also for artists, and she has become an icon of regional and national identity across Spain. This volume, co-written by an archaeologist and an anthropologist and translated here into English for the first time, seeks to explore the importance of the Lady of Elche, both for students of the past, and for the peoples of Iberia.
The authors here explore not only what we know - and still do not know — about her creation, but also engage with key questions about what she represents for the men and women of our time who have questioned, manipulated, admired, loved, and often reinvented the singular beauty of this iconic figure. The Mediterranean basin has always been an area of cross-cultural interactions and encounters, affected by recurrent episodes of warfare and religious rivalries but nonetheless featuring lands, peoples, and cultures that were bound together rather than divided by the sea.
This series focuses on the archaeology, and cognate disciplines, of the countries encircling the Mediterranean Sea, from Morocco and Spain in the West to the Levant, and covers a broad timespan that extends from prehistory through to early modern periods. In doing so, it aims to offer unique insights into developments around the Mediterranean, and the changing and creative nature of cultural contacts over time.
Monographs and edited collections are invited from a broad range of archaeological disciplines, including environmental sciences, landscape studies, urban studies, epigraphy, Egyptology, anthropology, visual culture, and multidisciplinary studies with a strong archaeological component. The series will also consider final reports from fieldwork and detailed data discussions if they are embedded within a clearly interpretive discussion.
Since her discovery, the Lady of Elche has been a source of fascination not only for scholars, but also for artists, and she has become an icon of regional and national identity across Spain. This volume, co-written by an archaeologist and an anthropologist and translated here into English for the first time, seeks to explore the importance of the Lady of Elche, both for students of the past, and for the peoples of Iberia.
The authors here explore not only what we know - and still do not know — about her creation, but also engage with key questions about what she represents for the men and women of our time who have questioned, manipulated, admired, loved, and often reinvented the singular beauty of this iconic figure. The Mediterranean basin has always been an area of cross-cultural interactions and encounters, affected by recurrent episodes of warfare and religious rivalries but nonetheless featuring lands, peoples, and cultures that were bound together rather than divided by the sea.
This series focuses on the archaeology, and cognate disciplines, of the countries encircling the Mediterranean Sea, from Morocco and Spain in the West to the Levant, and covers a broad timespan that extends from prehistory through to early modern periods. In doing so, it aims to offer unique insights into developments around the Mediterranean, and the changing and creative nature of cultural contacts over time.
Monographs and edited collections are invited from a broad range of archaeological disciplines, including environmental sciences, landscape studies, urban studies, epigraphy, Egyptology, anthropology, visual culture, and multidisciplinary studies with a strong archaeological component. The series will also consider final reports from fieldwork and detailed data discussions if they are embedded within a clearly interpretive discussion.
