De Civitate Angelorum

Patrick R. Crowley is the associate curator of European art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Previously he was assistant professor of art history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome (2019).

Patrick R. Crowley

The Myth of the Absent Ancient: On Donatien Grau’s “De Civitate Angelorum”

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Patrick R. Crowley is the associate curator of European art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Previously he was assistant professor of art history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome (2019).

Patrick R. Crowley

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The Myth of the Absent Ancient: On Donatien Grau’s “De Civitate Angelorum”