Sinclair Bell, assistant professor of art history in the School of Art, is the co-editor of a new book titled “New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome.”
Published by the University of Wisconsin Press, the book covers one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the ancient word: the transition between pre-Roman and Roman Italy.
The contributing scholars shed “new light on the evidence of well-known and recently excavated sites and the objects they have yielded – their iconography, manufacturing techniques and afterlives.” Their essays follow “the first archaeological traces of the rise of ancient Italy to its rediscovery in the Renaissance and its reinvention in contemporary fiction.”
Among the international scholars, some previously unavailable to an English-language audience, are Giovannangelo Camporeale of the University of Florence and Francesco di Gennaro and Paolo Togninelli, both of Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma.
Bell, who joined the NIU School of Art last fall, also served as co-editor of “Role Models in the Roman World: Identity and Assimilation,” published by the University of Michigan Press.