 Professor Salvest of ASU Has Photography Exhibition at Brooks May 13, 2010
Professor John Salvest, Art, will have a PowerPoint slide presentation of more than 200 photographs of Roman mosaics featured at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art as part of the Memphis in May International Festival's salute to Tunisia. Salvest's Tunisian photographs were taken in 2005 as part of a research project funded by ASU's Middle East Studies Committee.
As part of that project, Salvest visited museum collections and archeological sites throughout Tunisia to view Roman mosaics. Salvest's presentation accompanies “Mosaics of Ancient Rome: A Tunisian Treasure,” an exhibit of mosaics from Tunisia that date to the days of the Roman Empire. After defeating the Carthaginians in the Punic Wars (264-146 BCE), the Romans expanded their African colonies, including the area that is known today as Tunisia. By 44 BCE, Carthage, rebuilt after its earlier destruction, became a hub of commerce and art, and its citizens began to embellish buildings with mosaic floors, which were viewed as both utilitarian and artistic creations. Tunisia became a center of artistic production of mosaics.
The Brooks is exhibiting four mosaics on loan from Le Musee National du Bardo (Bardo Museum) and the El Jem Museum through Sunday, May 30. The exhibition includes "Geometric Pattern with Bird and Stag," a third-century marble mosaic; "Funerary Orant with Birds, Roses, and Candles, a fifth-century Christian mosaic; and two mosaics which depict scenes from Greek mythology, "Artemis and the Calydonian Boar Hunt," and "Hercules Being Crowned by Victory." The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, located at 1934 Poplar Avenue in Overton Park, is the oldest and largest encyclopedic art museum in the state of Tennessee.
For details on this, and all other exhibitions and programs, call the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art at(901)544-6200.
*Photography pictured not Salvest's work. Credit to sxc.hu.
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