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Title:Rediscovery of Antiquity : The Role of the Artist
Series:(Acta Hyperborea, Volume 10)
Author:Jane Feifer, Tobias Fischer-Hansen & Annette Rathje (eds)
ISBN:8772898291 : 9788772898292
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:551
Weight: 1.37 Kg.
Published:Museum Tusculanum Press - March 2003
List Price: 56.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:HISTORY OF ART/ART & DESIGN STYLES: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology: Ancient Greece: Ancient Rome


The latest volume of Acta Hyperborea, which appeared in the late fall of 2003, includes articles, which are the revised versions of papers presented at a conference in Copenhagen in September 2001. The participants were classical archaeologists, art historians and artists. The anthology is divided into four main themes: artists use of ancient models; forming ideas and shaping taste; artists and patrons; and, creating collections.

Contents: Between Scylla and Charybdis. Concerning the Artist's perception of Antiquity; Michelangelo and Greek Sculpture; Pirro Logorio and the Rediscovery of Antiquity; Orfeo Boselli and the Interpretation of the Antique; The Artist's Contribution to the Rediscovery of the Caesar-Iconography; How to choose Ancient Models. The Example of John Tobias Sergel (1740-1802); Between Art and Archaeology: Johannes Wiedewelt in Rome 1754-1758; 'An ornament of the mind' - C.J.C. Reuvens' Ideas about the Benefits of Archaeology for Art and Society in the Netherlands; Wiedewelt, Winckelmann and Antiquity; Julianehøj and the Memorial Grove at Jægerspris; Iudicium et ordo: Antonio Canova and Antiquity; Laurent Guiard: Memory of the Antique; Mantua, Mantegna and Rome: The grotte of Isabella D'Este reconsidered; 'Providence send us a lord': Joseph Nollekens and Bartolomeo Cava; Polish Artists and the Emergence of Archaeology in Eighteenth century Rome; Caravaggio and the Role of the Antique; The Importance of Etruscan Antiquity in Tuscan Renaissance Art; Antiquities and Art Theory in the Collections of Vicente Victoria; Danish Artists Collecting Antiques on behalf of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.