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Philipp Von Stosch (1691–1757) and the Study of Engraved Gems Paweł Gołyzniaḱ *
Antiquity 2021 page 1 of 9 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.112 Project Gallery From antiquarianism to proto-archaeology: Philipp von Stosch (1691–1757) and the study of engraved gems Paweł Gołyzniaḱ * * Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Poland (✉ [email protected]) Examination of Philipp von Stosch’s documentation of engraved gems, discovered in previously unknown archival sources in the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow and other public and private collections, considerably advances our understanding of the move from antiquarianism to proto-archaeology in the eighteenth century. Keywords: antiquarianism, proto-archaeology, archiving, engraved gems, history of archaeology, Philipp von Stosch Introduction Philipp von Stosch (1691–1757) (Figure 1) is regarded as one of the most instrumental figures in eighteenth-century antiquarianism (Hansson 2014). While previous research has focused on his life and role as a collector (Lewis 1967; Zazoff & Zazoff 1983:3–67), the production of his outstanding book on gems (signed by ancient masters and published in 1724 (Heringa 1976; Zazoff & Zazoff 1983:24–50; Whiteley 1999)) and his collection of engraved gems published by Winckelmann in 1760 (Borbein et al. 2019), his other con- tributions to academia have been overlooked. This article considers his skill in building and managing collections and, perhaps most importantly, his collaboration with numerous artists who produced drawings apparently intended as illustrations for his virtually unrecognised scholarly projects. The Stosch Project An extensive collection of unpublished drawings of engraved gems discovered in the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow provided an opportunity to explore Stosch’s scholarly activ- ities. The drawings record small objects made of precious stones used in antiquity as seals, amulets or as personal adornments. -
To Hugh Honour, Who Invented All This L'inevitabile Pacetti
SOUVENIRS DE ROME To Hugh Honour, who invented all this I Temo che i due maggiori esegeti dell’arte nell’epoca che qui ci riguarda, il tardo Settecento, non condividerebbero se non saltuariamente l’argomento di questo mio scritto. Statuine, marmetti, porcellane, biscuit, bronzetti e piccoli mosaici che incantano il lato infantile di ogni uomo civile e destano la nostalgia per un passato da molti indovinato e a pochissimi noto, non sono cose per persone serie∗. Per il fondatore della storia dell’arte la bella materia della porcellana non è stata mai nobilitata da alcun lavoro che rechi l’impronta del genio: non ha altro merito che quello di espandere il gusto per il futile. Saremmo dunque frivoli e superficiali per Winckelmann? Che ne pensava l’altro dioscuro teutonico che ha in gran parte formato, almeno così mi auguro, la nostra sensibilità? “L’arte del mosaico, che agli antichi offriva i pavimenti, ai cristiani inarcava il cielo delle loro chiese, ora si è avvilita fino alle tabacchiere e ai braccialetti”. E poi, con la forza con cui Ciclope scagliava un macigno sui mortali, il grande uomo dettava un epitaffio per tutti: “i nostri tempi sono peggiori di quel che non si pensi”. Inutile contraddire chi ha più dottrina di noi. Potrei, è vero, citare molte altre frasi in difesa degli objets d’art (non esiste un termine italiano che abbia la stessa appropriatezza) ma temo che esse siano dettate da spiriti, paradossalmente, o più pedanti o più banali. Dirò una cosa sola: quel che si cerca negli oggetti a cui accenniamo non è tanto la loro realtà fisica quanto l’evocazione di un ideale poetico che è in noi senza che, mi ripeto, ne siamo del tutto coscienti. -
Images Re-Vues, 13 | 2016 the Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’S “Skin” 2
Images Re-vues Histoire, anthropologie et théorie de l'art 13 | 2016 Supports The Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’s “Skin” Illusion de surface : percevoir la « peau » d’une sculpture Christina Ferando Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/3931 DOI: 10.4000/imagesrevues.3931 ISSN: 1778-3801 Publisher: Centre d’Histoire et Théorie des Arts, Groupe d’Anthropologie Historique de l’Occident Médiéval, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, UMR 8210 Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques Electronic reference Christina Ferando, “The Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’s “Skin””, Images Re-vues [Online], 13 | 2016, Online since 15 January 2017, connection on 30 January 2021. URL: http:// journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/3931 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/imagesrevues.3931 This text was automatically generated on 30 January 2021. Images Re-vues est mise à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale 4.0 International. The Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’s “Skin” 1 The Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’s “Skin” Illusion de surface : percevoir la « peau » d’une sculpture Christina Ferando This paper was presented at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, as part of the symposium “Surfaces: Fifteenth – Nineteenth Centuries” on March 27, 2015. Many thanks to Noémie Étienne, organizer of the symposium, for inviting me to participate and reflect on the sculptural surface and to Laurent Vannini for the translation of this article into French. Images Re-vues, 13 | 2016 The Deceptive Surface: Perception and Sculpture’s “Skin” 2 1 Sculpture—an art of mass, volume, weight, and density. -
Archaeology and Classics
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JANUARY 2 – 5, 2014 WELCOME TO CHICAGO! Dear AIA Members and Colleagues, Welcome to Chicago for the 115th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. This year’s meeting combines an exciting program presenting cutting-edge research with the unique opportunity to socialize, network, and relax with thousands of your peers from the US, Canada, and more than 30 foreign countries. Appropriately for an urban venue settled in the 19th century by ethnic Europeans, this year’s meeting will feature several sessions on East European archaeology. And sessions devoted to heritage and preservation and digital methodologies in archaeology touch upon increasingly central concerns in the discipline. Back by popular demand are the undergraduate paper session and the Lightning Session. We are indebted to Trustee Michael L. Galaty and the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee that he chairs for fashioning such a stimulating program. Table of Contents Some of the other highlights of this year’s meeting include: General Information ......4-5 Opening Night Lecture and Reception (Thursday, 6:00–9:00 pm) Program-at-a-Glance 10-11 We kick off the meeting with a public lecture by Dr. Garrett Fagan, Professor of Ancient History at Penn State University. In “How to Stage a Bloodbath: Theatricality and Artificiality at the Roman Arena” Fagan explores Exhibitors .................. 12-13 the theatrical aspects of Roman arena games – the stage sets, equipment of the fighters, etc–that created an artificial landscape in which the violence of the spectacle was staged. Fagan will also consider what these Thursday, January 2 features tell us about Roman attitudes toward the violence of the games, and how spectators reacted to them Day-at-a-Glance ..........14 psychologically (Thursday, 6 pm). -
DP Louvre Edme Bouchardon.Pub
Dossier de presse Exposition Du 14 septembre au 5 décembre 2016 Hall Napoléon Bouchardon (1698-1762) Une idée du beau Contact presse Coralie James [email protected] Tél. 01 40 20 54 44 1 Sommaire Communiqué de presse page 3 Préface page 5 par Jean–Luc Martinez, président-directeur du musée du Louvre et Timothy Potts, directeur du J. Paul Getty Museum Parcours de l’exposition page 7 Regards sur quelques œuvres page 12 Autour de l’exposition page 16 Publications, manifestations à l’auditorium du Louvre, visites-conférences, atelier, guide multimédia... Visuels disponibles pour la presse page 19 Lettres du mécène page 24 La liste complète des œuvres exposées est disponible sur demande : [email protected] 2 Bouchardon (1698-1762) Une idée du beau Communiqué de presse Le musée du Louvre et le J. Paul Getty Museum de Los Angeles Exposition rendent hommage à Edme Bouchardon, sculpteur et dessinateur 14 septembre - 5 décembre de renom, qui fut considéré dès son époque comme « le plus 2016 grand sculpteur et le meilleur dessinateur de son siècle » (Cochin). Cité dans l’Encyclopédie comme le continuateur de Puget et de Girardon, Bouchardon fut perçu par ses contemporains comme le promoteur du renouveau dans les arts. Alors que de nombreuses études ont favorisé une nouvelle approche du néo-classicisme, cette première exposition monographique d’envergure permet d’appréhender l’esthétique du sculpteur, parfait équilibre entre la référence antique et la fidélité à la nature. Fils d’architecte sculpteur, Edme Bouchardon se forma à l’Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture à Paris avant de faire un fécond séjour à l’Académie de France à Rome (1723-1732), couronné par des projets soumis au pape et par son élection à l’Académie de Saint-Luc. -
Etruscan News 19
Volume 19 Winter 2017 Vulci - A year of excavation New treasures from the Necropolis of Poggio Mengarelli by Carlo Casi InnovativeInnovative TechnologiesTechnologies The inheritance of power: reveal the inscription King’s sceptres and the on the Stele di Vicchio infant princes of Spoleto, by P. Gregory Warden by P. Gregory Warden Umbria The Stele di Vicchio is beginning to by Joachim Weidig and Nicola Bruni reveal its secrets. Now securely identi- fied as a sacred text, it is the third 700 BC: Spoleto was the center of longest after the Liber Linteus and the Top, the “Tomba della Truccatrice,” her cosmetics still in jars at left. an Umbrian kingdom, as suggested by Capua Tile, and the earliest of the three, Bottom, a warrior’s iron and bronze short spear with a coiled handle. the new finds from the Orientalizing securely dated to the end of the 6th cen- necropolis of Piazza d’Armi that was tury BCE. It is also the only one of the It all started in January 2016 when even the heavy stone cap of the chamber partially excavated between 2008 and three with a precise archaeological con- the guards of the park, during the usual cover. The robbers were probably dis- 2011 by the Soprintendenza text, since it was placed in the founda- inspections, noticed a new hole made by turbed during their work by the frequent Archeologia dell’Umbria. The finds tions of the late Archaic temple at the grave robbers the night before. nightly rounds of the armed park guards, were processed and analysed by a team sanctuary of Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Strangely the clandestine excavation but they did have time to violate two of German and Italian researchers that Mugello, Firenze). -
Beauty in Ancient Greek Art: an Introduction
BEAUTY IN ANCIENT GREEK ART: AN INTRODUCTION Translate each term/expression about body, sculpture, ancient greek clothing. forearm / upper arm: ………………………………. (large scale / life-size) sculpture: ………………………………. palm: ………………………………. sculpture carved in the round: ………………………………. hairstyle: ………………………………. statue (equestrian / votive): ………………………………. braid: ………………………………. half-length / full-length portrait/figure: ……………………… fingers: ………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………….. wrist: ………………………………. relief (bas-relief / high-relief): ………………………………. bosom: ………………………………. stele): ………………………………. bosom / chest: ………………………………. neck: ………………………………. marble: ………………………………. lips: ………………………………. bronze: ………………………………. cheekbones: ………………………………. gold: ………………………………. eyelids: ………………………………. silver: ………………………………. eyelashes: ………………………………. wood: ………………………………. chin: ………………………………. plaster: ………………………………. back: ………………………………. clay: ………………………………. shoulders: ………………………………. stone (dressed stone): ………………………………. womb / abdomen: ………………………………. terracotta: ………………………………. navel: ………………………………. wax: ………………………………. leg: ………………………………. foot: ………………………………. to sculpt / carve: ………………………………. ankle: ………………………………. to woodcarve: ………………………………. navel: ………………………………. to rough-hew: ………………………………. knee: ………………………………. to polish/to smooth: ………………………………. sculptor: ………………………………. carver: ………………………………. sandals: ………………………………. peplos / peplum: ………………………………. cloak / hymation: ………………………………. tunic / chiton: ………………………………. patch: ………………………………. linen: ………………………………. wool: ………………………………. to be wrapped in: ………………………………. to -
The Second Glance. All Forms of Love
All Forms ART OF ANTIQUITY AND of Love ENLIGHTENED COLLECTING Path 3 – Male homosexual collectors are the focus of the third path 1 2 François Duquesnoy (1597–1643) Edmé Bouchardon (1698–1762) Antinous Belvedere, first half of the 17th c. Baron Phlipp von Stosch, 1727 Bronze, 31,5 x 13,5 x 9 cm Marble, 85 x 65 x 34 cm Inv. Nr. 1/94 Inv. Nr. M 204, Property of the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein © Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst © Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin / Jörg P. Anders and Antje Voigt der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin / Jörg P. Anders Unlike in the Christian societies of of both an intellectual and sexual of the temples that were dedicated the Middle Ages and the early mod- nature. The publicly celebrated love to the emperor. In addition, he had ern period, which judged homosex- of the Roman emperor Hadrian (76– Antinous’ image reproduced hun- uality as unnatural, in antiquity same- 138 AD) for the young Antinous dreds of times, whether chiselled in sex love (between men) met with (ca. 110–130 AD) is legendary: after stone, cast in bronze, or minted on greater tolerance and sometimes the latter drowned under tragic coins. In later centuries these images even approval. This was especially circumstances during a boating of Antinous were in high demand true for friendships between young excursion on the Nile, Hadrian had among collectors and lovers of fine men and older mentors, which were his lover venerated as a god in several art, particularly in the 18th century, 19 THE SECOND GLANCE PATH 3 ART OF ANTIQUITY AND ENLIGHTENED COLLECTING when the excavations of the ancient homoerotic friendship. -
Press Release
NEWS FROM THE GETTY news.getty.edu | [email protected] DATE: January 6, 2016 MEDIA CONTACT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amy Hood Getty Communications (310) 440-6427 [email protected] J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM PRESENTS FIRST MAJOR EXHIBITION ON RENOWNED 18TH-CENTURY ARTIST EDME BOUCHARDON Exhibition includes more than 30 sculptures and 100 drawings and prints by the famed Royal artist and is the first major museum examination of his work BOUCHARDON: ROYAL ARTIST OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Los Angeles January 10 – April 2, 2017 Special Installation of Bouchardon’s masterwork The Sleeping Faun now on view in the Getty Museum’s Entrance Hall Los Angeles – One of the most imaginative and celebrated artists of the eighteenth century, Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698-1762) was both an exceptionally accomplished sculptor and astonishingly talented draftsman. A new exhibition on view at the Getty Museum from January 10 through April 2, 2017 – Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment – will present the first comprehensive survey devoted to this extraordinarily important, but not well-known artist. Organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the exhibition was on view there from September 12 to December 5, 2016. At the Getty the show will include more than 150 works, including sculptures, drawings, prints, and medals designed by Bouchardon. In advance of the opening date, one of Bouchardon’s masterworks, The Sleeping Faun, has been installed in the Getty Museum’s Entrance Hall where it will be on view through the run of the exhibition. “Bouchardon’s astounding skill in carving marble and his brilliantly realized drawings, marveled at in his own time, remain just as captivating today,” says Timothy Potts, director The Sleeping Faun, 1726–30, Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 Marble H: 184 X W: 142.5 X D: of the J. -
Dionysiac Art and Pastoral Escapism
Alpenglow: Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity Volume 6 Number 1 (2020) Article 4 12-1-2020 Dionysiac Art and Pastoral Escapism Casey Roth Binghamton University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/alpenglowjournal Recommended Citation Roth, C. (2020). Dionysiac Art and Pastoral Escapism. Alpenglow: Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity, 6(1). Retrieved from https://orb.binghamton.edu/ alpenglowjournal/vol6/iss1/4 This Academic Paper is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Alpenglow: Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact [email protected]. Casey Roth Dionysiac Art and Pastoral Escapism The pastoral lifestyle was appealing to many people in the Hellenistic and Roman world, as it provided an escape from the stresses of the city.1 This longing to flee the materialistic urban centers was reflected in art and literature, in which Dionysiac figures, such as satyrs or even herdsmen, were represented and described in this idealized environment and provided viewers with a sense of being carefree. Dionysiac elements in art and literature represented this escape from the chaotic city, overcoming boundaries to allow one to welcome a utopia.2 Not only were boundaries overcome in both a worldly and geographic sense, but also identity was challenged. As a result of escaping the city through pastoralism, one could abandon their identity as a civilian for an existence defined by pastoral bliss.3 Pastoralism was associated with an idyllic landscape and can act as an escape from reality. -
Engraved Gems
& Baan (eds) & Baan Bercken den Van ENGRAVED GEMS Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for making impressions in soft materials. Later engraved gems were worn or carried as personal ornaments – usually rings, but sometimes talismans or amulets. The exquisite engraved designs were thought to imbue the gems with special powers. For example, the gods and rituals depicted on cylinder seals from Mesopotamia were thought to protect property and to lend force to agreements marked with the seals. This edited volume discusses some of the finest and most exceptional GEMS ENGRAVED precious and semi-precious stones from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities – more than 5.800 engraved gems from the ancient Near East, Egypt, the classical world, renaissance and 17th- 20th centuries – and other special collections throughout Europe. Meet the people behind engraved gems: gem engravers, the people that used the gems, the people that re-used them and above all the gem collectors. This is the first major publication on engraved gems in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden since 1978. ENGRAVED GEMS From antiquity to the present edited by B.J.L. van den Bercken & V.C.P. Baan 14 ISBNSidestone 978-90-8890-505-6 Press Sidestone ISBN: 978-90-8890-505-6 PAPERS ON ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEIDEN MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES 9 789088 905056 PALMA 14 This is an Open Access publication. -
Gabriella Tassinari
G. Tassinari, Lettere dell’incisore di pietre dure Francesco Maria Gaetano Ghinghi, “LANX” 7 (2010), pp. 61‐149 Gabriella Tassinari Lettere dell’incisore di pietre dure Francesco Maria Gaetano Ghinghi (1689-1762) ad Anton Francesco Gori * Abstract Le lettere qui esaminate, conservate nella Biblioteca Marucelliana a Firenze, sono scritte da Napoli dal famoso incisore di pietre dure Francesco Maria Gaetano Ghinghi (1689‐1762) al celebre erudito e antiquario Anton Francesco Gori. Esse sono ricche di interessanti notizie relative all’attività del Real Laboratorio delle Pietre Dure di Napoli, fondato nel 1737, di cui il Ghinghi fu il primo direttore, e coordinatore dell’équipe di artisti fiorentini che si erano trasferiti con lui. Il Ghinghi fornisce dati sulla circolazione di gemme a Napoli in quel periodo, sulle antichità di Ercolano (di cui il Gori fu uno dei primi a scrivere) e sulla permanenza a Napoli di Antonio Pichler, capostipite di una illustre famiglia di incisori, che il Ghinghi conosceva bene, perché entrambi lavoravano per il noto collezionista di gemme Philipp von Stosch. Inoltre, in un quadro di scarsa disponibilità di calchi riproducenti gemme della collezione Farnese, acquista gran valore l’invio di tali impronte da parte del Ghinghi al Gori, che così aveva gemme non documentate altrimenti. The letters analysed in this article, now in the Biblioteca Marucelliana in Florence, are written from Naples by the famous gem‐engraver, Francesco Maria Gaetano Ghinghi (1689‐1762) to the renowned scholar and antiquarian Anton Francesco Gori. They give very interesting news about the activity of The Laboratorio delle Pietre Dure in Naples, that began its production in 1738, formed by Ghinghi, the first Director, and the Florentine craftsmen who had come with him.