Warnock Lecture Series: Rita Lucarelli (University of California, Berkeley): "Doorscapes and Guardians of the Underworld: a comparative visual approach to the imagery of the ancient Egyptian and Etruscan demons"

Spring 2024 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History

"Doorscapes and Guardians of the Underworld: a comparative visual approach to the imagery of the ancient Egyptian and Etruscan demons"

In many religious cultures, ancient and modern, the otherworld is not an empty place. The ancient Egyptian and Etruscan depictions found in tombs show that the access to the Beyond was guarded by divine beings that acted as agents of protection of the liminal spaces between this and the other worlds, or of the passages between different areas of the netherworld. In this lecture the demonic guardians and the landscapes they are imagined to be living within will be analyzed and compared by illustrating the worldviews and worldmaking of the ancient Egyptians and of the Etruscans, also in relation to the symbology of gates and doors as places of judgment and protection.

Lecture: 5–6:30pm
Reception: 6:30–7:30pm

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