#18 - Ancient Art: Mummies, Fake Sculptures and Beheaded Emperors... with Lisa Anderson Zhu

Ancient Mummy Glamour shots, a Minoan scandal everyone should be talking about, the Baltimore painter, Elephants on sarcophagi and the funny history of behead statues... 

These are just a few of the fascinating pieces discussed with Lisa Anderson-Zhu, the Associate Curator, Art of the Mediterranean, 5th millennium BCE to 4th century CE at the The Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland. Links to all the pieces mentioned below.

You can listen to Lisa Anderson-Zhu LIVE in Classical Wisdom's upcoming Symposium 2020: Power and Politics, taking place October 24 - 25, 2020.

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*Wine option ends October 13th.

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Pieces Mentioned:

Baltimore Painter Vase https://art.thewalters.org/detail/30814/volute-krater/ 

The Minoan Statuette https://art.thewalters.org/detail/25734/goddess-or-priestess/

Artemis-Aphrodite  https://art.thewalters.org/detail/22879/torso-of-artemis-with-head-of-aphrodite/

Marcus Aurelius  https://art.thewalters.org/detail/10416/portrait-of-the-emperor-marcus-aurelius/

...and his former torso https://art.thewalters.org/detail/90260/

Augustus https://art.thewalters.org/detail/767/portrait-of-emperor-augustus/

Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysus  https://art.thewalters.org/detail/33305/sarcophagus-with-the-triumph-of-dionysus/

Funeral Stele of Antaios Meilesios https://art.thewalters.org/detail/30157/funeral-stele-2/

Mummy Portrait with the Gold Necklace  https://art.thewalters.org/detail/30478/mummy-portrait-of-a-woman-from-fayum-egypt/

Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man  https://art.thewalters.org/detail/7962/mummy-portrait-of-a-bearded-man/

More information on the Walters Museum can be found at @walters_museum