Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe

About Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe

Elizabeth Marlowe earned her Ph.D in Roman Art at Columbia University. She teaches Ancient Art as well as Critical Museum Theory at Colgate University, where she also directs the new program in Museum Studies. She is the author of Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship, and the History of Roman Art (2013).

The truth is that the route to the gallery is often ugly, built on crime, brute force, and lies. When we catch a glimpse of that reality, we must not look away.

Seizure of Looted Antiquities Illuminates What Museums ...

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, 251-53 C.E., bronze, 241.3 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — In the chaos of the 3rd century, can we be sure about the identification of this statue?

Trebonianus Gallus — emperor or athlete? Rethinking ...

What do we gain when works come from a well-documented excavation?

The importance of the archaeological findspot: The ...

What do we gain when works come from a well-documented excavation?

The importance of the archaeological findspot: The ...

Where do objects in museums come from? Explore the tension between collectors and the preservation of history.

Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes

Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca Bust), from Rome, c. 100 C.E., marble, 63 cm (Capitoline Museums) — Is this delicate female portrait what we think? Take part in a discussion of a masterpiece we know little about.

When there is no archaeological record: Portrait ...

Bronze statue of a nude male figure (Bubon bronze) — Where do the objects in museums come from? Explore the tension between collectors and the preservation of knowledge.

Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes

Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca Bust), from Rome, c. 100 C.E., marble, 63 cm (Capitoline Museums) — Is this delicate female portrait what we think? Take part in a discussion of a masterpiece we know little about.

Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca ...