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...composite mixture. Now, I think it’s right to say that there are tensions there. And the tension that I think most people live, if they express a tension is that, is, on the one hand, they see being Muslim and wearing hijab in part as a sort of critique of the sexualisation of women of consumerism. And the emphasis on consumerism. But at the same time they are attracted...

...composition we see on the Hadrianeum represented the empire at peace and running smoothly. Mary Boatwright presents a similar idea in her discussion of the Temple of Venus and Rome, part of which you studied as Reading 1. In the iconography of both temples the emperor may have been trying to create a positive image of the authority of Rome. Nevertheless, these temples and...

...composition is centred on a domed rotunda fronted by slender Ionic columns. The building is whitish, unlike the surrounding brick buildings. The same symmetry is visible in Thomas Rowlandson's depiction of the interior of the Pavilion ( Plate 13 ). Mirror is balanced by mirror, seat by seat and fireplace by console. The plasterwork is uniform, and repeated in panel after...