L'expression des corps. Gestes, attitudes, regards dans l'iconographie antique. Egypte the myths of pre-Christian religions

the myths of pre-Christian religions

sculptor to the Countess Mahaut d'Artois

only the first part of an unprecedented investigation

Bulletin of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology 94

L'expression des corps. Gestes, attitudes, regards dans l'iconographie antique. Egypte the myths of pre-Christian religionsGestures, attitudes, looks, postures are all ways of being conducive to a social and cultural reading of Antiquity. A multidisciplinary approach allows a broad chrono cultural opening, from the archaic worlds to the end of the Roman Empire, through Greek, Etruscan, Italiote or Roman civilizations. Vases, reliefs, statues, mosaics constitute a considerable corpus from which the contributions propose, beyond the formal repetition of iconographic models