Zainab Bahrani, The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity

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1 “We must never forget that we look at Egyptian art with the mental set we have all derived from the Greeks.” Ernst Gombrich, Art and Illusion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), 122.

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2 For the history of the scholarship of this theory, see Bruce Lincoln, Happiness for Mankind (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 171. For an excellent art historical treatment of the art of architecture of Persepolis, which reflects contemporary scholarly understanding of its role within the Achaemenid Empire, see Margaret Cool Root, “Achaemenid Imperial Architecture: Performative Porticoes of Persepolis,” in Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis, ed. Sussan Babaie and Talinn Grigor (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015), 1–63.

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Matthew P. Canepa

Matthew P. Canepa is currently a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and associate professor at the University of Minnesota