Drawing the Greek vase /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Meyer, Hans-Caspar, 1975- (Editor), Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:	Visual conversations in art and archaeology.
Subjects:	Archaeological illustration > History. Vases, Greek, in art. Classical antiquities > Study and teaching > History. Illustration archéologique > Histoire. Vases grecs dans l'art. Antiquités gréco-romaines > Étude et enseignement > Histoire. Archaeological illustration Classical antiquities > Study and teaching Vases, Greek, in art Archaeology. History. Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.