Dr. Stager’s Academic Pages
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we talk with Dr. Jennifer Stager, an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of History of Art, whose research interests include colour and materiality, feminisms, multilinguality and cultural exchange, ancient Greek and Roman medicine, and classical receptions.
Join us, as we delve into Dr. Stager’s exciting research on polychromy in the ancient Mediterranean, especially the use of colour on Greek statues.
Interested in learning more? Check out these articles by Dr. Stager:
The Unbearable Whiteness of Whiteness
Review: Recology SF Artists in Residence
Review: Asli Cavusoglu and the Place of Stone
“The Materiality of Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art” in Rachael Goldman (ed.) Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum. New Jersey: Gorgias Press (2016): 97-119.
“A Mother’s Odyssey” Eidolon (August 31, 2018)
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Bronze, marble, frit, quartz, and obsidian. Metropolitan Museum of Art 1991.11.3a, b
Additional Reading
Hariclia Brecoulaki. “Precious Colours in Ancient Greek Polychromy and Painting: Material Aspects and Symbolic Values” Révue Archéologique, (2014): 1-36.
_____La peinture funéraire de Macédoine. Εmplois et fonctions de la couleur, IVe-IIe siècles av. J.-C. (Athens 2006).
Edilberto Formigli. “Le techniche del colore nella statuaria antica in bronzo” in Formigli, ed. Colore e Luce Nella Statuaria Antica In Bronzo: Indagini Archeometriche e Sperimentali. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2013, 1-31.
_____“Alterazioni superficiali dei bronzi di Riace”, dans Due bronze da Riace. 1984.
Milette Gaifman. “Statue, Cult and Reproduction” Art History, 29:2 (2006): 258-279.
Adeline Grand-Clément. “Poikilia” in Destrée, Pierre ed., A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 406-421.
Katerina Ierodiakonou. “Empedocles on Colour and Colour Vision” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 29 (2005): 1‐37.
Thomas Katsaros and Constantinos Vasiliadis. “Polychromy in Greek Sculpture”, ed. Olga Palagia Handbook of Greek Sculpture. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2019): 690-726.
Carol C. Mattusch. “Archaic and Classical Bronzes” in Olga Palagia ed., Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials and Techniques. London, 2006.
_____ “Changing Approaches to Classical Bronze Statuary”
Michaela Sassi. “Perceiving Colors” in Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray eds. A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 262-273.
Margaret Talbot. “The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture” The New Yorker (October 22, 2018)
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