Faculty

Past PhD(s): Cornelie Piok Zanon; See a listing of Past PhDs for details

Anne Weis is interested in the art and culture of the Roman Republic and in the problem of disentangling and describing the foreign and indigenous components that combined to produce that culture. Her publications have dealt with the Roman reception and rethinking of Greek subject matter and style (The Hanging Marsyas Statue: Roman Innovations in a Hellenistic Sculptural Tradition, 1992, Sperlonga, the Ficoroni cista, et al.), the reception and restoration of ancient statuary in the post-antique period, and Roman entrepreneurism and its impact on the archaeological record.

Weis’ teaching covers ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East, emphasizing, within broader survey courses, topics of interest for her research, e.g. the impact of materials on the development of architectural traditions, the relationship between commerce, consumption, and art/architectural production, gender mores and culture, and the reception of antiquity in later European/American scholarship and culture.