Corrado, Crispin

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Crispin Corrado is a classical archaeologist specializing in Roman art. Her major research interests and publications focus on Roman wall painting, sculpture, and domestic and tomb architecture. Professor Corrado has fieldwork experience in Pompeii and has worked in a curatorial capacity in the departments of ancient art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Vatican Museums. Professor Corrado has assisted in the creation and implementation of exhibitions of ancient art, co-authored catalogs, written books and articles, and presented guest lectures in her areas of expertise. Her current projects include an investigation of funerary monuments on the periphery of Rome, and a textbook on the ancient city.

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    Merry and Jovial: Reconsidering the Effigies Immortalis and the Commemoration of Roman Boys
    (BAR Publishing, 2013) Corrado, Crispin
    This book undertakes to answer questions relating to the creation of deity assimilation statues for young boys, a common mode of commemoration for the Romans. In addition, it demonstrates that many statues traditionally understood to represent youthful divinities actually possess portraits, even and especially if the faces appear joyful. It also proposes that these deity assimilation statues were commissioned primarily as posthumous commemorations. As such, the sculptural examples should be recognized as belonging to and constituting an important class of funerary sculpture; a class which has been, to this point, overlooked. It is also suggested that despite the fact that they were posthumous commemorations, deity assimilation statues of young boys were not necessarily placed in a sepulchral context, rather, it is maintained that images of children assimilated to divinities primarily served a sentimental purpose, and that, in that capacity, they may have been intended for and regularly kept in a domestic context, close to the surviving family.
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    The Zebra Stripe Design : an Investigation of Roman Wall Painting in the Periphery
    (L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2002) Corrado, Crispin
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    Aedicula Tombs and Statues in Rome: Reconsidering the Monument of Eurysaces
    (Archaeological Institute of America, 2023) Prieto, Alberto; Goldman, Max L.; Corrado, Crispin
    This article revisits the well-known monument of Eurysaces in the context of the Roman funerary landscape. By focusing on its structure and original context, our research demonstrates that the monument, far from being a unicum, instead conformed to contemporary commemorative practices and was in many ways typical. Analysis of comparable monuments and funerary areas, as well as characterization of the concrete used, indicates that the monument of Eurysaces was originally an aedicula tomb with a superstructure, now missing. This reconstruction allows for a more convincing and traditional positioning of the relief images known as “Eurysaces and his wife” at the crowning level of this structure. While our research focuses on the monument of Eurysaces, an important and unexpected result has been the likely identification of several full-length portrait reliefs whose distinctive features suggest that they belong to a previously unrecognized corpus in Rome: aedicular statues. This designation explains the characteristics differentiating them from freestanding statues and helps fill the lacuna of evidence for Rome’s once robust group of funerary structures and ornamentation. The identification of these aedicular statues, in turn, reiterates the fact that aedicula tombs were once popular in the city’s funerary landscape, as they were across the Roman empire.
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