


The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance and their spatial context and of written discourses having to do with how they were experienced. This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in diferent cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defning publicness itself. 1 Statues and Public Space: An IntroductionĢ How Accessible Were Statues in Pharaonic Egypt?ģ Portrait Statues in the Athenian Agora in the Roman Period: The Archaeological EvidenceĤ Populating Public Palmyra: The Display of Statues and Their Impact on the Perception of Public Space in Roman Palmyraĥ The Statue in Byzantium: Some Questions and CasesĦ Looking Up in Judgement: How to See the Early Modern Statue Through the Late Medieval Crucifix in Italyħ When Venus Mocked the Pope: Ancient Sculptures in the Possessi of Renaissance RomeĨ Monumentalising Burghers of the Low Countries: Living Statues in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Joyous Entriesĩ Street Monuments and the Idea of National ‘Improvement’ Through Tolerant Coexistence in Post-Restoration Britain (1660-1770)ġ0 From Empires Past to Nation State: Figurative Public Statues in Istanbul
