L'expression des corps. Gestes, attitudes, regards dans l'iconographie antique. Egypte se situent au-dessus des décrets

se situent au-dessus des décrets des hommes

sculptor to the Countess Mahaut d'Artois

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that of the founding and fall of conquering kingdoms

only the first part of an unprecedented investigation

L'expression des corps. Gestes, attitudes, regards dans l'iconographie antique. Egypte se situent au-dessus des décretsGestures, attitudes, looks, postures are all ways of being conducive to a social and cultural reading of Antiquity. A multidisciplinary approach allows a broad chrono cultural opening, from the archaic worlds to the end of the Roman Empire, through Greek, Etruscan, Italiote or Roman civilizations. Vases, reliefs, statues, mosaics constitute a considerable corpus from which the contributions propose, beyond the formal repetition of iconographic models