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What Makes Antiquity so Different, so Appealing? Issues and Debates

The classical lexic of the visual arts and architecture of the Rome during the Imperial Age was re-used in newly established imperial dynasties and collonial forces during the Modern period. Borrowing in such a way visual authority of the Roman Empire, that entered to the common perception as The Empire, the new imperial states, monarchs or governements reinforced their strengh, declared self-perception, and recognized themselves as successors of the Classical Roman glory.

Antiquity; Authority of the Roman Empire; re-use of the Imperial Lexic in the Modern Period

Sudjelovanje na simpoziju Past Perfected: Antiquity and Its Reinventions (putne troškove i boravak tijekom simpozija) financirali su organizatori - National Committee for the History of Art (USA) - zbog sudjelovanja na raspravi okruloga stola.