Workshop at NYU and Columbia: Greek Art & Estrucan Architecture at Vulci

This two-day workshop will be hosted on Thursday by New York University and on Friday by Columbia University. It focuses on Vulci and the extraordinary finds recently effected there by the “Vulci Cityscape” project, including a new monumental temple of the Late Archaic period and the extraordinary marble head of a Greek kore.

These finds will be presented for the first time in the United States. Starting from them, the workshop portion on Friday will discuss the entangled nature of the architectural and artistic landscape of Vulci. On the one hand, through comparison with other cases from central Italy (Tarquinia, Rome, and elsewhere), it will discuss the shared and differing qualities of temple design and construction practice, as well as the experience of sacred spaces, both in Etruria and beyond. On the other hand, it will address patterns of artistic production (and consumption) at Vulci and Athens, with special attention given to the display contexts of sculpture in the late sixth century BCE. On the whole, the presentations will highlight the manyfold levels of intersection that characterized the practices of designers, makers, and users of art and architecture at Vulci.