Classical Art
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17703-8 (ISBN)
What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum.
A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.
Caroline Vout is Reader in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Her books include Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome, The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City, and Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome.
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
1. Setting the Agenda, or Putting
the Art into Heritage 1
2. Finding the Classical in
Hellenistic Greece 20
3. Making Greek Culture Roman
Culture 43
4. Roman Art, the Building Blocks
of Empire 71
5. Reviving Antiquity in
Renaissance Italy 97
6. European Court Society and the
Shaping of the Canon 125
7. "Neoclassicisms" and the
English Country House 151
8. Seeing Anew in the Nineteenth
Century 186
9. The Death of Classical
Art? 220
10. And the Moral of the Story . . . 243
Notes 247
Bibliography 301
Index 343
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.05.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 80 color + 132 b/w illus. |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 203 x 254 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-17703-1 / 0691177031 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17703-8 / 9780691177038 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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