Bente Knold Kiilerich
Professor
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
Research group for Antiquity and the Classical Tradition
Homepage: http://uib.academia.edu/BenteKiilerich
Title: Professor
Phone: +47 55 58 32 05
E-mail: Bente.Kiilerich@lle.uib.no
Visiting address: HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7
Research interests include: Greek and Roman art and archaeology, especially sculpture; portraiture; Alexander the Great; late antique art; Byzantine mosaics; Byzantine aesthetics; polychromy; the legacy of classical antiquity in the modern age.
mag.art. classical archaeology, Copenhagen University 1985
dr.phil. art history, Copenhagen University 1993
professor of art history 1995-
elected foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1998
Publications Bente Kiilerich
1. Det Gamle Athena-tempel på Akropolis samt øvrig tempelarkitektur og arkitektonisk skulptur i Attika fra ca. 600 til 480 f.Kr. (unpubl. mag.art. dissertation) Copenhagen University 1985, (168 pp)
2. “Skulptursamlinger: Før, nu og i fremtiden”, Klassisk arkæologisk forenings meddelelser, no. 6/7, februar 1987, 20-24.
3. “Physiognomics and the Iconography of Alexander”, Symbolae Osloenses 63, Oslo 1988, 51-66.
4. “Bluebeard - a Snake-Tailed Geryon?”, Opuscula Atheniensia 17, Athens/Stockholm 1988, 123-136.
5. “Graeco-Roman Influence in Gandhara Sculpture”, Acta Hyperborea 1, Copenhagen 1988, 140-150.
6. “The Athenian Acropolis: The Position of Lions and Leopards”, Acta Archaeologica 59, Copenhagen 1988 (1989) 229-234.
7. “Mosaikkene i St.-Georg rotunden”, Klassisk arkæologisk forenings meddelelser, no. 11, oktober 1988, 10-16.
8. Græsk skulptur - fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, Copenhagen: Gyldendal 1989 (368 pp).
9. “Hic est: hic Stilicho: the Date and Interpretation of a Notable Diptych”, Jahrbuch des deutschen archäologischen Instituts 104, Berlin 1989, 319-371. Co-author: Hjalmar Torp.
10. “The Olive-tree Pediment and the Daughters of Kekrops”, Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia ser. altera 7, Rome 1989, 1-21.
11. “Kunsten omkring 400 e.Kr.”, Antikkens venner 5, februar 1989, 9-10.
12. “Kunsten omkring 400 e.Kr.”, Klassisk arkæologisk forenings meddelelser no. 12, februar 1989, 9-10.
13. “A Christ and the Apostles Relief in Search of a Date”, Arte medievale II Ser., anno IV, I, Rome 1990, 99-115. Co-author: Hjalmar Torp.
14. “A Head of a Boy in Oslo: Theodosius' Grandson?”, Istanbuler Mitteilungen 40, 1990, Istanbul/Tübingen, 201-206.
15. “Den sensationelle senantikke ‘Sevso’ sølvskat”, Klassisk Forum 1990:1, 37-41.
16. Græsk skulptur - fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, Copenhagen: Gyldendal; 2.ed. 1991.
17. “A Different Interpretation of the Nicomachorum-Symmachorum Diptych”, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 34, Bonn 1991, 115-128.
18. “ ‘Individualized Types’ and ‘Typified Individuals’ in Theodosian Portraiture”, Acta Hyperborea 4, Copenhagen 1992, 237-248.
19. “Förandringar i Konstantinopel och östra Medelhavsområdet under senantikken och den tidiga medeltiden”, KAF-meddelelser 21, oktober 1992, 12-14.
20. “Aphrodisias og den senantikke idealplastik”, Klassisk Forum 1992:1, 78-83.
21. Late Fourth Century Classicism in the Plastic Arts. Studies in the so-called Theodosian Renaissance, Odense University Press 1993, (385 pp) (doctor philosophiae thesis, Copenhagen University)
22. “ The Public Image of Alexander the Great”, in: Alexander the Great. Reality and Myth. Analecta Inst. Dan. Rom., suppl. 20, Rome 1993, 85-92.
23. “Sculpture in the round in the early Byzantine Period - Constantinople and the East”, in: L. Rydén, J.O. Rosenqvist eds., Aspects of Late Antiquity and early Byzantium, Transactions of the Swedish Institute Istanbul 1993, 85-97.
24. “Alexander den store i senantikken”, Klassisk Forum 1993:1, 57-61.
25. “Blandt guder og herskere i Østen”, review of H. E. Mathisen, Sculpture in the Parthian Empire I-II, Aarhus 1993, Politiken 14. marts 1993, 2. sektion s. 4.
26. “Mythological Sculpture in the Fourth Century A.D.: The Esquiline Group and the Silahtaraga Statues”, Istanbuler Mitteilungen 44, Istanbul 1994, 307-316; Co-author Hjalmar. Torp.
27. “Heidegger, Derrida, Schapiro og Van Goghs udtrådte støvler”, Kunst og Kultur 4, Oslo 1994, 228-233.
28. Græsk skulptur - fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, Copenhagen: Gyldendal; 3.ed. 1995.
29. “Continuity and Change in Ruler Imagery c. 400 - c. 875 A.D.: The Eternal Victor”, in: Rome and the North, A. Ellegård, ed., Jonsered 1996, 95-110.
30. Catalogue entries nos. 5, 7, 10, 43 in: J. Fleischer, Ø. Hjort, eds., Byzantium. Late antique and Byzantine art in Scandinavian Collections, Copenhagen 1996.
31. Katalog tekster nrs. 5, 7, 10, 43 i J. Fleischer, Ø. Hjort, eds., Byzans. Senantik og byzantinsk kunst i nordiske samlinger, Copenhagen 1996.
32. “Reflections on the enigmatic ‘Lady of Carthage’ mosaic”, XIX international congress of Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen 18-24 August 1996, vol. II, 5111 (abstract).
33. Græsk skulptur - fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 4. ed. 1997.
34. “The Visor of Agilulf: Longobard Ambition in Romano-Byzantine Guise”, Acta Archaeologica 68, Copenhagen 1997, 139-151.
35. Bilder og billedbruk i Bysants. Trekk av tusen års kunsthistorie (Cappelens Kunstfaglige bibl.), Oslo 1998, co-author: Hjalmar Torp (372 pp)
36. The Obelisk Base in Constantinople: Court Art and Imperial Ideology, (ActaIRN, ser.alt. 2, vol. X), Rome 1998 (194 pp)
37. “The Abundance of Nature - the Wealth of Man: Reflections on an early Byzantine Seasons Mosaic from Syria”, in: Kairos. Studies in Honour of G. Åkerström-Hougen, E. Piltz, ed., Jonsered 1998, 22-36.
38. “The Word-Image Controversy: Are Pictures to be Taken Seriously?”, Symbolae Osloenses 74, 1999, 92-96.
39. “Junius Bassus sarkofagen: Et kristent manifest for en romersk senator”, Kirke og Kultur 104, no.1: 1999, Oslo 33-44.
40. Græsk skulptur - fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, Copenhagen: Gyldendal; 5. ed. 2000.
41. “Representing an Emperor: Style and Meaning in the Missorium of Theodosius I”, El Disco de Teodosio, M. Almagro-Gorbea e.a., eds., Real accademia Madrid 2000, 273-280.
42. “Konstantinopel - Nea Roma: Fra storhet til fall og forfall”, Kirke og Kultur, no.2, 2000, 99-100.
43. “ ‘Salomon, jeg har overgået dig’. Anicia Julianas kirkeprojekter i Konstantinopel”, Kirke og Kultur, no. 2, 2000, 117-127
44. “Billedet af Anicia Juliana i Dioskourides-manuskriptet i Wien: Et politisk manifest eller bare et billede?”, Bysantinska sällskapet, Bulletin 18, Uppsala 2000, 5-15.
45. “Ara Pacis Augustae”, http://kunst.uib.no (2000)
46. “Parthenon skulpturen”, http://kunst.uib.no (2000)
47. “Græsk arkitektur”, http://kunst.uib.no (2000)
48. “Romersk arkitektur”, http://kunst.uib.no (2000)
49. “The Image of Anicia Juliana in the Vienna Dioskurides: Flattery or Appropriation of Imperial Imagery”, Symbolae Osloenses 76, 2001, 169-190.
50. “Savedoff, Frames and Parergonality”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59, no. 3. Summer 2001, 320-323.
51. “Ducks, Dolphins and Portrait Medallions: Framing the Achilles Mosaic at Pedrosa de la Vega”, ActaAArtHist, XV, n.s. 1, Rome 2001, 245-267.
52. “Falconets og Collots rytterstatue i St. Petersborg”, Kunst og Kultur 84: 4, Oslo 2001, 203-214.
53. “The Martyr Portraits in the Rotunda of St. George, Thessaloniki”, XXe congrès international des études byzantines, Paris 19-25 August 2001, vol. III, 306 (abstract).
54. Græsk skulptur - fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, København: Gyldendal; 6. ed. 2002.
55. “The Sarigüzel Sarcophagus and Triumphal Themes in Theodosian Art”, in: Frühchristliche Sarkophage, G. Koch, ed., Sarkophag-Studien II, Mainz 2002, 137-144.
56. “The Byzantine Artist and his Models: The Constantinian Mosaics at Nabeul and ‘perennial Hellenism’ ”, Medioevo: i modelli, A.C. Quintavalle, ed., Milan 2002, 211-220.
57. “The Public Image of Alexander the Great” (abridged version of 1993, reprinted for Ohio State University selected texts for a history curriculum, online - 2002).
58. “Byzantinsk kunst for salg - Kypern og Nikaea”, Kirke og Kultur, 2003: 4, 329-337.
59. “De hellige tre konger i Petra”, Kirke og Kultur, 2003:4, 299-314.
60. “Duften af Antinoos. Nutid og fortid - møde eller konfrontation”, Klassisk Forum 2003: 2, 83-87.
61. “A che cosa serve un nome? The Meaning of Name Inscriptions in Byzantine Art”, in: Medioevo: Immagine e racconto, A.C. Quintavalle ed., Milano 2003, 87-95.
62. “Donatellos bronze David - mellem krop og sjæl”, Kunst og Kultur, Oslo 87:1, 2004, 26-42.
63. “Fra græsk original til samtidskunst”, Antikkens grenser, ANTG 101 (kompendium), University of Bergen, Spring 2004 (15 pp).
64. “Praxiteles’ Hermes - fra rekonstruktion til dekonstruktion”, Klassisk Forum 2004:1, 77-86.
65. Review of: N. Keith Rutter and B.A. Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece, Edinburgh 2000, The Classical Bulletin 79, Wauconda USA, 2003, 200-205.
66. “Aesthetic Aspects of Palaiologan Art in Constantinople - some Problems”, J.R. Rosenqvist ed., Interaction and Isolation in Late Byzantine Culture, Transactions of the Swedish Institute Istanbul 13, 2004, 11-26.
67. “Bayeux-tæppet: en billedreportage fra middelalderen”, http://kunst.uib.no/200 (2004)
68. “Visioner af et hovedværk i romansk skulptur: Umberto Eco og Moissac portalen”, http://kunst.uib.no/200 (2004)
69. Græsk skulptur fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, København Gyldendal, 7. ed. 2005.
70. “Chiragan: en problematisk samling af antik skulptur fra en villa nær Toulouse”, Klassisk Forum 2005:1, 37-50.
71. “Rifacimento nel panello imperiale in Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli: Zoe e i suoi tre mariti”, in A.C. Quintavalle, ed., Medioevo: Immagini e ideologie, Milano 2005, 28-36.
72. “Likeness and Icon: the Imperial Couples in Hagia Sophia”, ActaArchaeol ArtHist XVIII, N.S. 4, Rome 2005, 175-203.
73. Review of R. Leader-Newby, Silver and Society in Late Antiquity, London 2004, Speculum 80, no. 4, October 2005, 1318-1320.
74. Review of L.M. Stirling, The Learned Collector, sehepunkte 5 (2005), no. 11 [15.11.2005] http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2005/11/8164.html
75. “Mitorajs moderne myter - nyt liv til gamle former”, Klassisk Forum 2005: 2, 46-57.
76. “What is Ugly? Art and Taste in Late Antiquity”, http://www.colbud.hu/mult_ant/Getty-Workshops/universalabstracts/Kiilerich.htm
77. “The Aesthetics of Marble and Coloured Stone”, XXI international Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 2006, Vol. II. Abstracts of Panel Papers, 238-239.
78. “Antiquus et modernus: Spolia in Medieval art -Western, Byzantine and Islamic”, A.C. Quintavalle, ed., Medioevo: i tempi degli antichi, Milan 2006, 135-145.
79. “Making Sense of the Spolia in the Little Metropolis in Athens”, Arte Medievale, n.s. 4, Rome 2005, vol. 2., [2006] 95-114.
80. “The Satyr Portraits in Aeschylus’ Theoroi: Spitting Images or Art History in a Different Key?”, Polis. Studi interdisciplinari sul mondo antico II, Reggio di Calabria 2006, 61-72.
81. “Ara Pacis - genfødt i et nyt årtusind”, Klassisk Forum 2006:2, 34-51.
82. “Defacement and Replacement as Political Strategies in Ancient Ruler Images”, NORDIK 2006, http://nordik.uib.no/portal/papers.html
83. “From Greek Original to Modern Pastiche: the Reformulation of the Classical Statue in Contemporary Art”, ActaArchaeolArtHist XX, n.s. 6, Rome 2007, 241-265.
84. “Det klassiske og reklamen”, Klassisk Forum 2007:1, 37-44.
85. “Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art: Giulio Paolini and Carlo Maria Mariani”, Festschrift A.C. Quintavalle, A. Calzona, e.a., eds. 2007, 605-612.
86. Græsk skulptur fra dædalisk til hellenistisk, København Gyldendal, København 2007, 8. ed.
87. “Picturing Ideal Beauty: The Saints in the Rotunda at Thessaloniki”, Antiquité tardive 15, 2007 [2008], 321-336.
88. “Parthenon: tempel, kirke, moske, monument”, Klassisk Forum 2008:1, 38-49.
89. “Antik mode i langobardisk regi”, Klassisk Forum 2009:1, 38-51.
90. “Platon og billedernes bedrag”, Klassisk Forum 2009:2, 41-52.
91. “Art and Taste in Late Antiquity”, Arte Medievale 2007:2 [2009], 9-20.
92. “Gamle statuer i nye værker” in M. Skoie & G. Vestrheim, eds., Antikken i ettertiden, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2009, 240-250.
93. “The Rhetoric of Materials in the Tempietto Longobardo at Cividale”, in V. Pace, ed., L’VIII secolo: un secolo inquieto, Cividale del Friuli 2010, 93-102.
94. “Teatret i Carthago Nova – en restaureringshistorie”, Klassisk Forum 2010:1, 30-42.
95. “Billedets væsen. Reflektioner over den byzantinske billedstrid”, Din- tidsskrift for religion og kultur, 2010 3/4, 85-99.
96. “The Mosaic of the Female Musicians from Mariamin”, ActaArchaeolArtHist XXII, 2010, 87- 107.
97. “Romerske spolier i San Giusto, Trieste”, Klassisk Forum 2010:2, 99-106.
98. “Fra kejser til McQueen”, Personae. Tidsskrift for klær, kropp og kultur, 2010: 4, 62-67.
99. “Colour and Context: Reconstructing the Polychromy of the Stucco Saints in the Tempietto Longobardo at Cividale”, Arte Medievale 2008:2 [2011], 9-24.
100. “Private Portraits in Late Antiquity: Observing the Subject”, in F. d’Andria, ed., Roman Sculpture in Asia Minor, Journal of Roman Archaeology, suppl. S80, 2011, 359-370.
101. “Alexander den Store som moderne ikon”, Klassisk Forum 2011:1, 35-44.
102. “Visual and Functional Aspects of Inscriptions in early Church Floors”, ActaArchaeolArtHist XXIV, 2011, 45-63.
103. “Centcelles – et gådefuldt monument ved Tarragona”, Klassisk Forum 2011:2, 64-78.
104. “Monochromy, Dichromy and Polychromy in Byzantine Art”, Doron Rhodopoikilon. Studies in Honour of Jan Olof Rosenqvist, Uppsala 2012, 169-186.
105. “Anmeldelse af M. Prusac, From Face to Face”, Klassisk Forum 2012:1, 77-80.
106. “Jeans – Made in Italy”, Personae. Klær, kropp, kultur 3/4 2012, 174-179.
107. “Venus de Milo – brug, misbrug og genbrug”, Klassisk Forum 2012:2, 42-52.
108. “Boethius, Symmachus and the Consecratio Ivory Diptych”, Antiquité Tardive 20, 2012, 205-215.
109. “The Aesthetic Viewing of Marble in Byzantium: From Global Impression to Focal Attention”, Arte Medievale, 2012, [2013], 9-28.
110. “Realisme og fiktion i senantikke portrætter”, Klassisk Forum 2013:1, 41-57.
111. “From Temple to Church: The Redefinition of the Sacred Landscape on the Acropolis”, in S. Brink - S. W. Nordeide, eds., Sacred Sites and Holy Places (Studies in the early Middle Ages - SEM 11) Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, 187-214.
In print/accepted for publication/submitted/commissioned
112. “Personal Attire and Appearance in Byzantium”, Acts from Byzantine Culture Conference Istanbul May 2010, ed. D. Sakel, Istanbul 2013.
113. “Mosaik og mode – glimt fra Dolce & Gabbana’s host/vinter kollektion 2013/2014”, Personae. Klær, kropp, kultur 3/4 2013.
114. “Formal Shortcomings or a Different Kunstwollen: Ritualisation and the Arch of Constantine”, in Melanges Jean-Pierre Caillet (Hortus Artium Mediaevalium).
115. “Defacement and Replacement in Ancient and Byzantine Ruler Images”, K. Kolrud & M. Prusac Lindhagen, eds., Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
116. “The Opus Sectile from Porta Marina at Ostia and the Aesthetics of Interior Decoration”, I. Jakobs, eds. Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian Age, (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion), Leuven: Peeters.
117. “The Style and Visual Characteristics of the Centcelles Mosaics”, in A. Arbeiter & D. Korol, D. Marzoli eds., Tagungsband Centcelles, Iberia archaeologica
118. “Optical Colour Blending in the Rotunda Mosaics at Thessaloniki”, Musiva et sectilia 8.
119. “Ascension Panel”; “Box: Ivory (Maskell Casket)”; “Carrand Diptych”; “Diptych: Ivory Diptychs: Religious (Christian)”; “Maximian of Ravenna: Ivory Throne”; “Mosaic of Musicians, Mariamin (Syria)”; “Reliquary Silver”; “Sculpture: Wood (Reliefs on Doors)”; “Women at the Tomb”, Encyclopedia of early Christian Art and Archaeology (EECAA), ed. C. Noll & P. Corby Finney.
120. “Spolia”, in O. Brandt, L. Rutgers and J. Magness, eds., Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Late Antiquity, (CEALA) (2015).
121. Etude typologiques des portraits de martyr in H. Torp, La Rotonde palatiale à Thessalonique
122. “Riegl’s Concept of Late Roman Art: Judging the Evidence”, Proceedings of History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century, Conference, Swedish Institute, Rome, 4-6 April 2013.
123. “Abstraction in Late Antique Art”, proceedings of Abstraction and Symbolism in Late Antiquity, Conference, Swedish Institute Istanbul, 9-10 May 2013.
124. “The State of Early Christian Iconography in the Twenty-first Century”, Studies in Iconography 34/35, 2014.
Greek and Roman art. Early Christian and Byzantine art (KUN111/KUN121).
Antiquity and the classical tradition (KUN253/KUN203)
Mediterranean art (KUN323 Spring 2013)