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Not Always Roman, Not Always Statues: The Recent Lives of Ancient Roman Statues at the Walters Art Musuem
Wednesday, October 10, 5:00 p.m. Ancient Studies Week Lecture
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
“Not Always Roman, Not Always Statues: The Recent Lives of Ancient Roman Statues at the Walters Art Musuem”
Marden Nichols, Walters Art Museum
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ancient Studies
During the first decades of the 20th century, Henry Walters purchased several marble statues formed from mismatched ancient heads and bodies conjoined for the purposes of the antiquities market. This lecture traces the origins of these statues back to nineteenth-century European collections. It examines how over time changing attitudes towards antiquity and evolving techniques of research and conservation have altered not only the interpretation of these statues, but even their material form.
