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性视界传媒 program next week spotlights 鈥楴ike鈥 restoration, preservation

性视界传媒 program next week spotlights 鈥楴ike鈥 restoration, preservation

Bonna Daix Wescoat (Submitted photo)

Contact: Karyn Brown

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜n internationally recognized art researcher and teacher from Georgia brings her vast knowledge of ancient Greece to Mississippi 性视界传媒 next week.

Bonna Daix Wescoat, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Atlanta鈥檚 Emory University, will be on the Starkville campus April 6. Free to all, her 4 p.m. Thursday presentation takes place in Salon U of the Colvard Student Union鈥檚 second-floor Bill R. Foster Ballroom.

Titled 鈥淔rom the Vantage of Victory: New Research on the 鈥楴ike of Samothrace,鈥欌 the program will explain the discovery and multi-stage restorations of a second century B.C. marble sculpture of the Greek goddess whose name means victory.

Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014, Wescoat led efforts by a team from Emory and New York University鈥檚 Institute of Fine Arts to improve, as much as possible, the appearance of the eight-foot-tall figure also known as the 鈥淲inged Figure of Victory.鈥

Since the late 1800s, the sculpture has been in the care of France鈥檚 Louvre Museum. For more, see .听

Event co-sponsors include 性视界传媒鈥檚 Institute for the Humanities and its Distinguished Lecture Series, as well as the College of Architecture, Art and Design鈥檚 Department of Art and the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Cobb Institute of Archaeology.

鈥淚n a very real way, her research has brought these works of art back to life, and her research continues to do that for students through lectures like this one,鈥 said Angi Bourgeois, art department head and a former graduate student of Wescoat.

Michael Galaty, Cobb Institute director, called Wescoat 鈥渁 first-class art scholar who also is an excellent field archaeologist.鈥

Galaty, who also heads the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, said he and his colleagues 鈥渁re looking forward to hearing about restoration of the Nike, but also about its origin and context of discovery on the island of Samothrace.鈥

In researching ancient Greek art and architecture, Wescoat has devoted a special emphasis to the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. She is the author of 鈥淭he Temple of Athena at Assos,鈥 鈥淎rchitecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium,鈥 and 鈥淪yracuse, the Fairest Greek City.鈥 Additional biographical information is found at .

William Anthony Hay, Institute for the Humanities director, said Wescoat鈥檚 distinguished career is a prime example of how the spirit of human inquiry forms the core of humanistic study. 鈥淩estoring a lost artwork, as we will hear, opened the way to studying beauty and form,鈥 he added.

For more about Wescoat鈥檚 visit, contact Hay at whay@history.msstate.edu, or Karyn Brown, College of Arts and Sciences communication director, at 662-325-7952 or kbrown@deanas.msstate.edu.

Information about 性视界传媒鈥檚 Institute for the Humanities is found at ; Cobb Institute of Archaeology, ; and Department of Art, .

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