Caroline van Eck

Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past

Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the creation and reception of Piranesi's three colossal neoclassical candelabra. Caroline Van Eck's study explores the intense interest taken by producers and consumers of art objects in objects that made the classical live again in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 198mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845665
• ISBN-10: 0192845667
• Artikelnr.: 66125537

Autorenporträt

Caroline van Eck studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, and classics and philosophy at Leiden University. She obtained a PhD in aesthetics at the University of Amsterdam in 1994. She has held teaching positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, and Leiden, where she was appointed Professor of Art and Architectural History in 2006. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art at Yale University, a Visiting Professor in Ghent, Yale, York, and the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Paris, and in 2018 held the Panofsky Chair at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. In September 2016, she was appointed Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge. She delivered the 2017 Slade Lectures in Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'A Neoclassical Dream and an Archaeologist's Nightmare':
Piranesi's Colossal Candelabra in the Louvre and Ashmolean Museum
* 2: Candelabra in Antiquity, their Rediscovery, and Reception
* 3: Making Antiquity Materially Present
* 4: Animal Features
* 5: Animation, Immersion, and the Revival of Antiquity
* 6: Movement, Animation and Intentionality
* Conclusion: 'Antiquity is only now coming into Being'. The Origins of
the Style Empire and the Turn towards the Object, 1770-1820.