Art History Faculty Lecture | Mark Abbe

“The Aphrodite−Al-‘Uzzá Conservation Collaborative: Conserving and Contextualizing Recently Discovered Marble Sculpture at Petra”

Join us for our Art History Faculty Lecture Series. Associate Professor Mark Abbe presents “The Aphrodite−Al-‘Uzzá Conservation Collaborative: Conserving and Contextualizing Recently Discovered Marble Sculpture at Petra” on March 17th. This lecture will take place at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in room N100 at 5:30 pm.

Speaker Bio

Mark Benford Abbe received his PhD in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts) and has an Advanced Certificate in the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (Conservation Center, New York University). At the University of Georgia, Abbe teaches a full complement of undergraduate and graduate courses on ancient Mediterranean art, architecture, and visual history. He approaches works of art as expressions of culture that are best elucidated by situating them within their historical, social, and philosophical contexts. He has been involved in archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean (including Italy, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt) and he has received research fellowships from multiple institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the American School of Classical Studies, the Getty Research Institute, and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. With scientific colleagues in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, he oversees the multidisciplinary Ancient Polychromy Network and he is associated faculty in the Department of Classics.