20. ITINERANCE AND MEMORY. IMAGES IN ANCIENT GREECE: MULTI-TEMPORALITY, CULTURAL AGENTS AND VISUAL AGENDAS
Panel Convenors
Carmen Sánchez Fernández (University Autónoma of Madrid) [carmen.sanchez.fernandez@uam.es]
Jorge Tomás García (University Autónoma of Madrid) [jorge.tomas@uam.es]
Carmen Sánchez Fernández graduated in History in 1980 from the Complutense University of Madrid and received a PhD in 1991 from the same university. She is currently Professor of Ancient Art at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is also the director of the GREIGA group, born with the purpose of investigating and disseminating the studies of the visual culture of ancient Greece. She has been director of the Department of History and Theory of Art and the Institute of Antiquity Sciences (ICCA-UAM ) until 2016. His lines of research are attic ceramics from the 5th and 4th centuries BC. C., classical iconography and studies of Greek visual culture. She has directed several research projects: "Iconography of the irrational: Dionysian images in Iberia" (from 1994 to 1997) and "Images of Athens in the Iberian world. Study of the iconography and reception of Greek materials from the 4th century BC. in the Iberian Peninsula” (2009-2011) and currently directs the project: “Visual narration in attic ceramics: the craters of red figures in the Iberian context”. In addition, she has curated several exhibitions, including "Gods, heroes and athletes", at the Regional Archaeological Museum of Alcalá de Henares in 2015. Some of his main publications are Greek Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula, Brill, Leiden, 2001; La invención del cuerpo: Arte y erotismo en el mundo clásico, Siruela, 2015; Una nueva mirada al arte de la Grecia antigua, Cátedra, 2006.
Jorge Tomás García is PhD of Art History (University of Murcia, 2010) and Bachelor of Classical Philology (University of Murcia, 2010). He has been a fellow of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2014) and an FCT postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2015-2018). He has taught at the Universities of Murcia, at the UNED as Professor Tutor and in the department of Art History of the Nova University of Lisbon as Guest Assistant Professor. He has been part of the work team dedicated to restoring Roman paintings at the archaeological site of Macchiozzo de la Villa de Adriana (Tivoli) in the Atelier de formation à l'étude des enduits peints antiques (July 2017), organized by l'École française de Rome within the context of the "Advanced Program of Ancient History and Art" (APAHA) of Columbia University (New York). He is currently Professor in the Department of History and Theory of Art of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Some of his main publications are Pausias de Sición. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore. “Maestri dell’arte classica», vol. 4, 2015; La escuela de pintura de Sición y su fortuna crítica. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2011; Perea Yébenes, S. – Tomás García, J. (eds.) GLYPTÓS. Gemas y camafeos grecorromanos: Arte, Mitologías, Creencias. Madrid – Salamanca: Signifer Libros. Colección Thema Mundi – n°10, 2018.