Antiquity in Print

Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

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Antiquity in Print

Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

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Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of the rise of antiquarianism in the 18th century, Orrells shows how this period of cultural progression was important for the invention of classical studies. In particular, the main focus of this book is on the visionary experimentalism of antiquarian book production, especially in relation to the contentious nature of ancient texts.

With the explosion of the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, eighteenth-century intellectuals, antiquarians and artists such as Giambattista Vico, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the Comte de Caylus, James Stuart, Julien-David Leroy, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville all became interested in how printed engravings of ancient art and archaeology could visualize a historical narrative. These figures theorized the relationship between ancient text and ancient material and visual culture - theorizations which would pave the way to foundational questions at the heart of the discipline of classical studies and neoclassical aesthetics.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Historicity, Disciplinarity and Materiality

Chapter 1: Achilles' Shield and Vico's Frontispiece
Chapter 2: Visualising Philhellenism
Chapter 3: Putting Ancient Greece into the Picture

Epilogue: From Lessing to Kauffmann: Awaiting the Return of Ancient Greece

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 13 Jun 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9781350407770
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 91 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series New Directions in Classics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Daniel Orrells

Daniel Orrells is Professor of Classics at King’s…

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