Exhibition at the Duderstadt Gallery

Exterior of the Gallery Space

 

 

 

The exterior of the gallery space. A new reconstruction of the City Gate (printed on large sheets of paper) was hung inside the front windows of the gallery [click image to view gate artwork]. In addition to the decorative effect, this print controlled the quantity of light entering the gallery, an essential concern for conservation of the artefacts and Woodbridge drawings as well as for viewing of the movie on the three-panel theater.

Reconstruction of the City Gate, Inner Fascade
Adrian J. Ossi
Produced by Matt De Genaro of Groundworks
Ann Arbor, 2006


As restored, the Latin inscription on the gate reads:

C. IVL. ASP(ER) PANSINI[AN]VS II VIR V
TRIB(VNUS MILITVM) LEG I PRAEF AL(AE) …
D(E) S(VA) P(ECVNIA) F(ECIT) ET ORNAVIT
Gaius Julius Asper Pansinianus, duovir (mayor) for the fifth time
Military tribune of the first legion, prefect of the foreign cavalry
… [here a stone is missing] from his own money constructed and ornamented (this gate) .



January 16, 2006
Digital Image
Courtesy of J. Matthew Harrington