Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

Cover
Halftitle page
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CLASSICS
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Historicity, Disciplinarity and Materiality
	Prefacing the Preface
	The visualization of historical knowledge
	Materiality and disciplinarity
	The reformation of art history
	Printing antiquity in the eighteenth century
	The politics of scholarship
1 Achilles’ Shield and Vico’s Frontispiece
	Visualizing history and inspiring artists
	Image and text in Vico’s New Science
	Hieroglyphic Homer
2 Visualizing Philhellenism
	Mariette’s Traité: Visualizing the connoisseur
	Caylus’ Recueil: Between history and allegory
	Reading the images in Winckelmann’s History
3 Putting Ancient Greece into the Picture
	Disinterring Athenian architecture with Stuart, Revett and Le Roy
	Piranesi’s modern ancient Romans
	Between Greece and Rome in South Italy
	The historiography of art and the art of historiography
	D’Hancarville’s gallery
	Ancient Greece between here and there, now and then
Epilogue From Lessing to Kauffmann – Awaiting the Return of Ancient Greece
Notes
Bibliography
Index