Drawing the Greek Vase : Classical Reception Between Art and Archaeology

by: Meyer, C. Petsalis-Diomidis, A.

 Drawing the Greek Vase
Edited by Caspar Meyer and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
Investigates depictions of ancient Greek vases as active producers of knowledge in classical art history, archaeology, collecting, and reception
Provides a survey of relevant visual material from antiquarian luxury folios, archaeological publications, auction catalogues, and various archives dating from the seventeenth century to the present
Offers new insights into illustration and photography as competing media in academic study and the antiquities trade
Engages with the perspectives of practising illustrators
Extensively illustrated with 146 black and white and colour images

Description
How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity. Case studies of the seventeenth to the twentieth century foreground ways that artists have depicted Greek vases in a range of styles and contexts within and beyond academia. Questions addressed include: how do these images translate three-dimensional ancient utilitarian objects with iconography central to the tradition of Western painting and decorative arts into two-dimensional graphic images carrying aesthetic and epistemic value? How does the embodied practice of drawing enable people to engage with Greek vases differently from museum viewers, and what insights does it offer on ancient producers and users? And how did the invention of photography impact the tradition of drawing Greek vases? The volume addresses art historians of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, archaeologists and classical reception scholars.

Table of Contents
1.:Introduction, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
2.:Why Drawing Still Matters: Connecting Hands and Minds in the Study of Greek Vases, Caspar Meyer
3.:Winckelmann's Elegant Simplicity: From Three to Two Dimensions and Back Again, Amy C. Smith
4.:The Graphic Medium and Artistic Style: Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and Two-Dimensional Encounters with Greek Vases, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
5.:The Flattened Greek Vase, Milette Gaifman
6.:Images of Greek Vases as a Basis for a Scientific Archaeology: Investigating the Archival Legacy of the Gerhard'scher Apparat's Drawings, Marie-Amélie Bernard
7.:Volume and Scale: Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold's Hervorragende Vasenbilder and the Study of Visual Narrative on Late Fifth-Century Vases, Katharina Lorenz
8.:Drawing as an Instrument of Connoisseurship: J. D. Beazley and his Late-Nineteenth-Century Forerunners, Athena Tsingarida
9.:Drawing the Greek Vase: A British Museum Illustrator's Perspective, Kate Morton
10.:Drawing vs Photography: On the Gains and Losses of Technical Innovation, Nikolaus Dietrich
11.:The Use of Photographs in the Trade of Greek Vases, Vinnie Nørskov
12.:Afterword, Caspar Meyer

Drawing the Greek Vase : Classical Reception Between Art and Archaeology

by: Meyer, C. Petsalis-Diomidis, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780192856128 / 978-0-19-285612-8
• ISBN-03: 019285612X / 0-19-285612-X
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023