Exchanging Views: Connectivity in Levantine Artistic Production in the Late Bronze Age

Visiting Research Scholar Lecture

Anna Lanaro (ISAW)

What inspired artisans and artists of the Levant in the second half of the second millennium BC? The close contact with other cultures of Eastern Mediterranean. The Levantine artistic production in the Late Bronze Age (15th-12th century BCE) is characterized by a strong tendency to adopt exotic images and foreign motifs and transform them into something unique. This sensibility towards "the other" should not be considered as lacking in authenticity and inventiveness. On the contrary, the fascinating artifacts produced in the Late Bronze Age are the result of an innovative creative process. Their puzzling blending of indigenous and exogenous motifs is, in fact, a distinguishing mark of the Levantine artisans.

This lecture is sponsored by The Achelis Foundation.

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