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Even in the context of the PS5, Pragmata turned heads with its cryptic trailer, which revealed extremely few details about Pragmata's plot or gameplay. It was announced at Sony's PS5 reveal conference alongside Resident Evil: Village. It has also for me be an entrée into the history of art history as a discipline and into the need for constructing comparative and non-Eurocentric models for thinking about visual culture and the ways we study it.Pragmata's life as a Capcom IP started off in a pretty high-profile way. Since the art of antiquity has such a privileged, indeed canonical, position in our culture, the study of its receptions is an exploration of more recent history's varied, competing and often ideologically understandings of its own past. I began my researches by looking at the way art was viewed in antiquity - and this has led to an interest in all kinds of reception from ritual and pilgrimage in the case of religious art to the literary description of art (including the rhetorical technique known as ekphrasis) to the more recent collecting and display of art as well as its modern historiography and receptions. My main interest is the art of the Roman empire, broadly conceived to include late antiquity and the early middle ages including Byzantium as well as the pre-Christian Classical world. It has also for me be an entrée into the history of art history as a discipline and into the need for constructing comparative and non-Eurocentric models for thinking about visual culture and the ways we study it.
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The major international exhibition arising from this project runs at the Ashmolean Museum from Octoto February 15, 2018. From 2013 to 2018, I was Principal Investigator on the Empires of Faith Project between the British Museum and Wolfson College, Oxford, which is exploring the visual cultures of the world religions in the Mediterranean and Asia between 200 and 800 AD.
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I serve on the editorial boards of a number of Journals around the world, am editor of the new Oxford series Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology and am joint editor of two monograph series, Greek Culture in the Roman World, with the Cambridge University Press and Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism. I was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and a member of the Max Planck Gesellschaft in 2019. I have held visiting attachments at the British School at Rome, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, UCLA, the Institute of Fine Art in New York and Princeton University. I have been a regular Visiting Professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago from 2003-13 and since 2014 have been Visiting Professor of Art and Religion in the Divinity School and the History of Art Department at Chicago. After a research fellowship at Jesus College Cambridge, I taught the art history of Greek and Roman antiquity at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London for 8 years as a Lecturer and Reader, before coming to the Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellowship in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus in 1999. I was born and brought up in London, and then studied Classics and Art History at Cambridge, Harvard and London, taking my doctorate from King's College Cambridge in 1991. After a research fellowship at Jesus College… Read more