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Research report: Mathilda Blanquet: From the Ephebe to the Athlete

6 December 2021

Mathilda Blanquet, PhD candidate in the history of modern art at the Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from May to October 2021. A short report on her research on the topic »From the Ephebe to the Athlete: Aesthetic and Semiological Variations of potentia in Florentine and Roman Sculpture of the Cinquecento and Seicento« is now available online.

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