ARTH708D

This seminar will engage issues of connoisseurship, iconography, iconology, and semantics in order to analyze and understand Egyptian, Greek, and Roman portraits in their ancient contexts. This course emphasizes the historical, religious, political, social, and cultural contexts of the works studied; the relationship of the works of art to the society that created them; and the interrelationships of these societies as seen through their material and visual culture.