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Anthony Beeson
Anthony Beeson (born April 1948) was a classical iconographer and an expert on Roman and Greek art and architecture. He was also the archivist of the Association for Roman Archaeology and the former art librarian at Bristol City Libraries. He reassembled the Orpheus Mosaic in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England. The museum is situated in Clifton, about from the city centre. As part of Bristol Culture it is run by the Bristol City Council with no entrance fee. It holds .... Selected publications * ''Central Bristol Through The Ages'' * ''Central Bristol Through Time'' * ''North Bristol Through Time'' * ''North Brighton: London Road to Coledean Through Time'' * ''North Brighton: Preston, Withdean & Patcham Through Time'' * ''Wareham and The Isle of Purbeck Through Time'' * ''Westbury on Trym to Avonmouth Through Time'' References Living people 1948 births People from Brighton English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iconographer
Iconology is a method of interpretation in cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical background of themes and subjects in the visual arts. Though Panofsky differentiated between iconology and iconography, the distinction is not very widely followed, "and they have never been given definitions accepted by all iconographers and iconologists". Few 21st-century authors continue to use the term "iconology" consistently, and instead use iconography to cover both areas of scholarship. To those who use the term, iconology is derived from synthesis rather than scattered analysis and examines symbolic meaning on more than its face value by reconciling it with its historical context and with the artist's body of work – in contrast to the widely descriptive iconography, which, as described by Panofsky, is an approach to studying the content and meaning of works of art th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |